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By Marianela Jarroud Chile is home to 20 percent of the world’s active volcanoes, according to the Andean Geothermal Centre of Excellence. |
By Marcela Valente Argentina is embracing hydraulic fracturing as a means of exploiting its large unconventional gas reserves. |
By Fabíola Ortiz The landless peasant farmers occupying large landholdings in Pará, the Brazilian state where the land conflict is most violent, face threats ranging from intimidation by armed private guards to the spraying of toxic agrochemicals over their homes and crops. |
By Milagros Salazar In the dense Amazon rainforest of Peru, there are five reserves inhabited by indigenous groups who have chosen to remain totally or partially isolated from the rest of society. But these areas are not officially demarcated as indigenous lands, and only one is protected with a control post. |
By Thelma Mejía The Honduran government’s announcement of its plans to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has raised expectations as well as doubts, particularly due to the speed with which it aims to complete a process that has taken several years in other countries of the region. |
By Alice Marcondes As part of the country’s growing emphasis on green tech research, Brazilian scientists have developed plastic solar panels that could revolutionise power generation from this clean, renewable energy source. |
By Emilio Godoy The residents of San Crisanto, a small communal village nestled in an idyllic setting in the southeastern Mexican state of Yucatán, have learned that valuing and protecting natural resources can generate employment and income. |
By Marianela Jarroud The Coastal Highway is meant to connect one end of Chile’s long, narrow territory to the other, running north to south as close to the Pacific Ocean as possible. |
By Estrella Gutiérrez Chagas disease can be contracted by eating contaminated food in urban areas that are not necessarily poor. Venezuelan researchers are moving closer to a cure. |
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