Renewable readiness assessment: Paraguay
This report examines Paraguay’s energy institutions and their governance, long-term energy planning practices, and the socio-economic benefits of promoting renewable and low-carbon technologies in the
Paraguay
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India named least green country for electric cars
Coal-dependent power generation sees India bottom of a ranking for emissions from electric cars, with Paraguay top Paraguay is the greenest place on earth to make and drive an electric car, according
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Brazil biofuel: Shell axes 'illegal' sugar cane plan
A biofuels company set up in Brazil by oil giant Shell has signed a landmark agreement giving up plans to buy sugar cane grown on indigenous lands. The company, Raizen, was obtaining some of the raw
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Jaguars Cling To Survival In Argentina's Forests
The musty jaguar pelts on display at a government office in Buenos Aires are a grim reminder of the big cat's precarious existence in Argentina's northern forests. The Iguazu waterfalls that border
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Climate change and American bullfrog invasion: What could we expect in South America?
Biological invasion and climate change pose challenges to biodiversity conservation in the 21st century. Invasive species modify ecosystem structure and functioning and climatic changes are likely to produce
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Herbicide tolerance and GM crops: Why the world should round up glyphosate
<p> Herbicide tolerance and GM crops: Why the world should round up glyphosate, is a report created by Greenpeace and GM Freeze, UK, that is based on about 200 scientific studies recently published
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A seat at the table: including the poor in decisions for development and environment
To better understand the obstacles to access facing the poor, and the efforts by governments to reach this population, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and its civil society organization (CSO) partners in The Access Initiative (TAI) closely examined access rights and practices in four countries
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World's Largest Wetland Threatened In Brazil
Date: 18-Feb-09 Country: BRAZIL Author: Raymond Colitt CORUMBA - Jaguars still roam the world's largest wetland and endangered Hyacinth Macaws nest in its trees but advancing farms and industries are destroying Brazil's Pantanal region at an alarming rate.
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Land Conflict Raises Tensions In Rural Paraguay
ASUNCION - Paraguay's government sent dozens of extra police on Friday to a poor rural region where peasant farmers demanding land redistribution have threatened to invade Brazilian-owned ranches.
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Yellow fever vaccine supply under pressure, says WHO
As the outbreak of yellow fever spreads from Brazil to its neighbouring countries, Argentina and Paraguay, who has said that the world's supply of vaccine against the disease is under extreme
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Is climate change affecting dengue in the Americas?
<p>Dengue is spreading in the Americas. Incremental changes in climate could help explain the disease's expansion, according to environmental scientists. But some dengue experts have called the link with climate "alarmist' and scientifically unsound.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(08)60435-3.pdf" target="_blank">Original Source</a></strong></p>