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By Gustavo Capdevila

Investment: The Hidden Green Agenda at WTO's Cancun Meet?

Conservationists fear that the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, Sep. 10-14 in the Mexican resort city of Cancun, will launch negotiations on rules that could undermine environmental policies.

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By Lidia Hunter

Plan for Nicaraguan Canal Reborn

A feasibility study for an inter-ocean route "bigger than the Panama Canal" will be ready by the end of the year, say Nicaraguan officials. But there are also private projects for connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts via railways and using existing waterways.

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A special reserve of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere, in Mexico. / Photo credit: Semarnat

A special reserve of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere, in Mexico. / Photo credit: Semarnat.

Protected Areas

There are 100,000 protected areas around the world. But very few provide benefits to the communities that inhabit them. Some 2,500 delegates are meeting in Durban, South Africa until Sep. 17 to discuss the problem, under the auspices of the Fifth World Congress on Protected Areas.

Havana Declaration calls for eliminating farm subsidies... Effort to reduce leaded gasoline in Peru... Proposal for wetlands corridor in Argentina... Mexico's environment minister replaced... Reforestation campaign in Honduran communities... Marine park clean-up in Costa Rica

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