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Headline	Author	Published	Section
An Ugly Alternative In Colombia, biofuels push inspires land grabs, violence		05 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
An Ugly Alternative In Colombia, biofuels push inspires land grabs, violence In case you need more evidence that biofuels are not the Big Green Conscience-Easing Solution: a disturbing pattern has emerged in Colombia, where vast palm-oil plantations are taking the place of tropical forests and farmland. Aid organizations working in the area say paramilitary gangs are seizing land for biofuel conglomerates, using threats ...
Topics: biofuels, climate, Colombia, news (all these topics)

So That's Why Their Little Hearts Beat So Fast New hummingbird species discovered, imperiled by cocaine trade		16 May 2007	Daily Grist
So That's Why Their Little Hearts Beat So Fast New hummingbird species discovered, imperiled by cocaine trade It's hard out here for a gorgeted puffleg. The hummingbird species with the fabulous name was just discovered in southwestern Colombia, where farmers slash and burn 1,235 acres of cloud-forest habitat every year to grow coca, the raw ingredient in cocaine. That's bad news for a spec ...
Topics: biodiversity, Colombia, deforestation, endangered species, news (all these topics)

Roll on, Colombia Libia Grueso advocates for Afro-Colombians and their land	Michelle Nijhuis	22 Apr 2004	Main Dish
The Pacific Coast of Colombia, a narrow slice of jungle between the Andes and the ocean, is rich with plant and animal life. It's also home to about a third of Colombia's 10.6 million Afro-Colombians, descendants of black slaves emancipated in the mid-1800s. In recent years, this isolated area has been hit hard by logging, gold mining, industrial agriculture, and Colombia's civil war. Grue ...
Topics: Colombia, interview, land stewardship (all these topics)

Changing Their Tuna		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Changing Their Tuna In other marine news, a new report released by the federal government has found that dolphin populations in the Pacific Ocean are failing to recover from years of tuna fishing, and that some 3,000 dolphins are still killed by tuna boats every year. The report, by the U.S. Commerce Department ...
Topics: Colombia, Department of Commerce, international government agencies, marine life, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Southwest, United States, Venezuela (all these topics)

Hurricane Hugo		06 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Hurricane Hugo If Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has his way, some developing nations will create an OPEC-like cartel to protect plants and animals from exploitation by the industrialized world. Speaking earlier this week at the close of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Chavez said, "If these [developed] countries carry off a medical formul ...
Topics: Brazil, business, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

Coca Is It!		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Coca Is It! Efforts by the United States to combat cocaine production in Colombia by spraying coca crops with herbicides are coming up against a provision requiring the spraying to meet the same safety standards as those in the U.S. Translation: The U.S. EPA must certify that the spraying "does not pose unreasonable risks or adverse effects to humans or the environment." The herbicide in use in C ...
Topics: Colombia, health, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Taylor-made Destruction		04 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Taylor-made Destruction Charles Taylor, the president of Liberia, has spread instability within his nation's borders and helped foment a brutal civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. To fund the fighting, he has exploited his country's natural resources. At first, it was diamonds -- but as internati ...
Topics: Africa, business, Colombia, deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, Liberia, logging, national parks, Sierra Leone (all these topics)

Dry Upheaval		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dry Upheaval As if Colombia needs any more bad news: The war-torn nation's water supply could be reduced by as much as 40 percent over the next 50 years due to deforestation and other degradation of fragile high mountain ecosystems, according to Carlos Castano, director of the country's Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology, and Environmental Studies. The pa ...
Topics: Colombia, deforestation, food and agriculture, green living, toxics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

A Tale of Two Mayors The improbable story of how Bogota, Colombia, became somewhere you might actually want to live	Lisa Jones	04 Apr 2002	Main Dish
"We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people," said a man in a speech last year. "Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. ... We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and pl ...
Topics: Colombia, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Cano Worms		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Cano Worms The Bush administration has asked for $98 million to help protect Colombia's Cano Limon oil pipeline from attacks by leftist guerrillas. The pipeline, which is owned by Occidental Petroleum, supplies crude oil to the U.S. and has the capacity to pump 240,000 barrels a day. But con ...
Topics: Colombia, commercial and industry organizations, energy, globalization, health, politics, pollution and waste, ranching, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

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