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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Tropic of Answer Charles Munn, a pioneer of South American ecotourism, answers readers' questions		14 Apr 2006	InterActivist
Charles Munn, Tropical Nature. Ecotourism is promoted as a sustainable alternative to industrial development; however, ecotourism does not generate the same immediate financial returns as industrial development. How can activists formulate their argument when aiming to save pristine areas from mining through promoting ecotourism? -- Jacqueline Obando, Pretoria, South Africa Well, yes, ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, South America, travel (all these topics)

A Tour for What Ails Ya Charles Munn, a pioneer of South American ecotourism, answers Grist's questions		10 Apr 2006	InterActivist
Charles Munn. What work do you do? I am chair of the board of Tropical Nature, a nonprofit conservation group specializing in conservation through ecotourism. What does your organization do? We run the world's largest network of eco-lodges in tropical rainforest -- in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Brazil. We also consult for rainforest and tropical ecotourism companies and for gover ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, South America, travel (all these topics)

Croak and Dagger Mass frog die-offs linked to global warming		12 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Croak and Dagger Mass frog die-offs linked to global warming The mass disappearance of colorful harlequin frog species in Central and South America has long puzzled biologists, but research published in the latest issue of Nature fingers a culprit: global warming. (When in doubt ...) The deadly chytrid fungus that's killing off the tiny amphibians is flourishing in places where it's gotten warmer a ...
Topics: Central America, climate, news, South America, wildlife (all these topics)

Buenos Bios How South American biofuels are gaining steam, and why that freaks the U.S. out	Kelly Hearn	15 Dec 2005	Main Dish
In his drab office in the fashion-obsessed chaos of downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, Edmundo Defferrari cuts a farmhand's figure in a corporate man's world. Soy is growing up down south. Photo: USDA/Keith Weller. The 28-year-old industrial engineer, in cap, jeans, and scruffy beard, taps through a PowerPoint presentation choked with graphs, statistics, and cartoon renderings of ...
Topics: Argentina, Brazil, South America, water pollution (all these topics)

See You in the Handbasket Climate-change studies project fun future of droughts, floods, illness		18 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
See You in the Handbasket Climate-change studies project fun future of droughts, floods, illness The latest issue of the journal Nature has three new studies on the likely impacts of climate disruption. Turns out it's gonna be a cakewalk! Ah, sadly, we kid. Millions who depend on mountain snow and glaciers for their water supplies -- especially in Asia and South America -- are expected to face shortages as rising temper ...
Topics: Asia, climate, news, South America (all these topics)

Holy Frijoles! Burgeoning soybean market transforming South American environment		16 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Holy Frijoles! Burgeoning soybean market transforming South American environment The global market for soybeans is exploding, largely driven by massive demand from China, and the resulting modern-day agricultural gold rush is transforming the landscape in South America. Farmers are chopping down rainforests, colonizing savannahs, damming rivers, and digging canals, all in an effort to get more land to raise the crop, wh ...
Topics: food and agriculture, South America (all these topics)

Nativity Scene Native Peoples Speak Up for Their Lands		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Nativity Scene Native Peoples Speak Up for Their Lands Indigenous peoples are rallying for their lands and their rights this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where a major U.N. convention on biodiversity is taking place. Representatives of native peoples are demanding the right to reject development proje ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, commercial and industry organizations, European Union, green living, Indonesia, Malaysia, placemaking, South America, United Nations (all these topics)

Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Sweet Chile O' Mine Greenpeace Activist in Chile Tells It Like She Sees It		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Chile, dams, education, energy, Greenpeace, hydropower, mining and drilling, rivers and watersheds, South America, wilderness (all these topics)

Just Stick to Tofu Farmed Salmon Contaminated With PCBs, Other Nasties		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Just Stick to Tofu Farmed Salmon Contaminated With PCBs, Other Nasties Consumers, still struggling with the news that bovine spongiform encephalopathy-laden beef will make your brain melt and mercury-laden tuna will make your children stupid, were met today with more bad news: A new study in the journal Science claims that fish-farmed salmon contain enoug ...
Topics: European Union, fishing, green living, health, marine life, South America, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Extract Marks the Spot Development, Tradition on Opposite Sides in South American Energy Battles		10 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Extract Marks the Spot Development, Tradition on Opposite Sides in South American Energy Battles Given its vast reserves of oil and natural gas, the Amazon basin should be heaven for extractive industries. Instead, the people who make their home in the basin are trying to make life hell for energy companies. Over the years, Amazon natives have become both more sophisticated and mo ...
Topics: Brazil, Ecuador, energy, green living, Peru, rainforests, South America (all these topics)

Reservoir Dogged		28 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Reservoir Dogged Four elderly Pehuenche Indian women have thrown a big wrench into plans for a $570 million hydroelectric dam in southern Chile. Arguing that the hydro project would flood sacred land and destroy their traditional way of life, the four have refused to sell 103 acres they own along the Bio Bio River, land that would be submerged if the dam were finished. The Chilean government and the Ende ...
Topics: dams, energy, rivers and watersheds, South America (all these topics)

A Pregnant Pause		30 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
A Pregnant Pause Women who were exposed to the pesticide DDT while in the womb had more difficulties getting pregnant as adults than did those who had no exposure, according to a new study published in the British medical journal Lancet. "This is the first research that shows it is possible that these exposures can cause problems 30 years down the line," said lead researcher Barbara Cohn, an epidemio ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, health, South America, toxics (all these topics)

Two Turntables and a Megapode		20 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Two Turntables and a Megapode This week was for the birds -- in a good way: Two previously endangered species seem to be enjoying a rebound. The population of the once desperately rare Polynesian Megapode has doubled and the bird could soon be removed from the list of critically endangered species maintained by the World Conservation Union. The species is the Pacific's last megapode -- a large-footed bird that uses ...
Topics: Pacific Islands, South America, wildlife (all these topics)

Leaf Me Alone		06 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Leaf Me Alone At international talks underway on protecting endangered species, the Bush administration has announced that it is "neutral" and "undecided" in the debate over whether to restrict trade in big-leaf mahogany from Latin America. The U.S. position since the time of George Bush the Elder had been to call for stricter limits on trade in th ...
Topics: business, globalization, logging, politics, South America, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Enron's End Run		06 May 2002	Daily Grist
Enron's End Run Here's another victim of Enron: the Chiquitano Dry Tropical Forest, one of the two most valuable forests in Latin America and one of the 200 most endangered eco-regions in the world, according to the World Bank and the World Wildlife Fund, respectively. The forest was the largest remaining undeveloped land of its kind in South America -- until Enron built a 390-mile natural gas pipeline directly through ...
Topics: South America, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Now You See Them, Now You Don't In the Andes Mountains, the pace of climate change is far from glacial	Ross Wehner	22 Apr 2002	Main Dish
Even 16,500 feet in the air, perched on the steep slope of a volcano in Ecuador, French glaciologist Bernard Francou moves gracefully. Hopping among ice blocks and jagged rock debris, he stops suddenly before a boulder with blue letters painted on its surface. The thinker: Bernard Francou. Photo: Bernard Pouyaud, Ecuador Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e Hidrologia ...
Topics: climate, Ecuador, renewable energy, South America, wildlife (all these topics)

New District in Colombia		14 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
New District in Colombia In what conservationists hope will serve as a model for future projects, Colombia has set aside a 167,960-acre park in the Amazon basin and granted the indigenous people who live there control over its management. Formally established late last month after years of negotiations between the government, indigenous people, and environmental groups, Indiwasi National Park is located in the most biologicall ...
Topics: national parks, South America (all these topics)

Cogito Ergo Summit		22 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Cogito Ergo Summit At an environmental summit being held this week in Rio de Janeiro, Latin American and Caribbean countries are forging an alliance to pressure developed nations to foot most of the bill for the planet's ailing ecosystems. During the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, industrialized nations pledged to spend 0.7 percent of their gross domestic products on sustainable development in the developing ...
Topics: Brazil, business, Caribbean, politics, South America (all these topics)

Just Spray No		01 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Just Spray No Despite a judge's order to temporarily cease fumigating coca and poppy plants with the herbicide glyphosate because of environmental and health concerns, Colombia said yesterday it would not stop the antidrug operation. The judge on Friday asked the Colombian government to explain what it knows about the effects of glyphosate on people and the environment. His final ruling on a petition by indigenous groups to h ...
Topics: health, South America, toxics (all these topics)

Hey Good Lookin', What Ya Got Cookin'?		27 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Hey Good Lookin', What Ya Got Cookin'? Nearly all residents in Villaseca, Chile, cook with solar power --pretty nifty in a country where firewood is a big source of energy, contributing to a steep loss in old-growth forests each year. Villaseca in sunny northern Chile has only 300 residents, but proponents of the solar technology hope the gizmos will spread across the region. Pedro Serrano, an environ ...
Topics: green living, logging, South America, water pollution (all these topics)

Back Flipper		24 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Back Flipper A federal appeals court yesterday rejected the U.S. government's bid to loosen the standard for "dolphin-safe" tuna. The U.S. wanted to open its dolphin-safe market to Mexican and Latin American fishers who catch tuna in large purse-seines and promise to set fre ...
Topics: Department of Commerce, Earth Island Institute, environmental justice, globalization, marine life, Mexico, politics, South America, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

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