Tierramérica

Issue of August, 11, 2008



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Sample collected at a sperm bank
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Report
Free Rein for Biobanks
By Emilio Godoy
Collections of human biological material, such as embryos, semen, blood cells and body tissue, are multiplying in a context of largely unregulated operations.

HIV developing in a human cell.
Credit: Public domain

Accents
Safe Sex With AIDS and Without a Condom?
By Daniela Estrada
People who are HIV positive but who are undergoing antiretroviral therapy do not transmit the virus, said the top Swiss authority in HIV/AIDS. In most of the world, the statement sounded like permission to abandon the best protection against the epidemic: the condom.

Eco-Briefs

BRAZIL: Electric Motorcycle On the Horizon
The electric motorcycle will be able to travel one kilometer per one cent of the Brazilian real (.006 dollars). This super-efficient bike will enter its final testing phase this month and will be launched in 2009 by the Brazilian electric company CPFL.

ARGENTINA: Petrified Forest to Be National Park
Argentina’s parliament is studying a bill that would create a new national park in the southern province of Santa Cruz in order to preserve its unique petrified forest.

HONDURAS: No Justice for Murdered Ecologists
Environmental and human rights organizations in Honduras have sought measures from the Inter-American Human Rights court following the escape of three of the four policemen implicated in the murder of ecologists Heraldo Zúniga and Roger Iván Murillo.

MEXICO: Eye On Climate Change and Renewable Energy
A scientific report, entrusted to the Veracruzana University of Mexico, will measure the impact of climate change on renewable energy.

Lessons From a Unique Decade - José Graziano da Silva *
Rio+20 and Beyond: Together for a Sustainable Future - José Graziano da Silva *
Why Inclusive Green Growth Can Sustain Recent Gains in Latin America - Hasan Tuluy*
The Global Food Crisis and the Latin American Paradox - Pamela Cox