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Children are often the most aware of threats to the environment./ Photo credit: Mauricio Ramos

By Diego Cevallos

Latin America's Ailing Environment

Latin Americans lose as many as 11 years off their lives due to environmental degradation, says a new study by the United Nations Environment Program.

Claudio Campagna. Credit: Victoria Zavattieri

By Marcela Valente

"Precaution should be the new paradigm for conservation"

Award-winning Argentine biologist Claudio Campagna is promoting a new model for preserving the whale habitat of the Patagonian coast.

Animal Welfare, Human Welfare

More than 450 delegates from 70 countries took part in the Global Conference on Animal Welfare, in Paris last week. Inadequate conditions in managing farm animals could be the cause of diseases like avian flu, which is currently taking its toll on the poultry industry in Asian countries.

Credit: JM Rengifo.

Argentina bans drift nets in fishing for corvina... Use of glyphosate herbicide in Colombian natural parks criticized... Transgenic maize contamination investigated in Mexico... Fire-fighting funds embezzled in Guatemala... Environmental manual published for Honduran journalists... 200 million dollars needed to clean up mining contamination in Peru...

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