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"Harvesting Fog Provides Drinking Water, Food to Peruvian Slums" [1]

"In Lima, Peru, more than 1.3 million people have no access to drinking water. The citizens without it are in the poorest areas, where water trucked in can cost nine times as much as it does in richer areas. So, citizens have had to either make do without running water, or, with the help of a German NGO, make dew into drinking water."

People & Population [2]
Public [3]
South America [4]
Source: TreeHugger [5], 11/13/2009

"Brazil Restores Power After Outage Hits Capital, Ten States" [6]

"Power was restored in Brazil after an outage at a dam providing 20 percent of the country's energy thrust about half of the nation's 190 million people into darkness for at least two hours."

Energy & Fuel [7]
Public [3]
South America [4]
Source: Bloomberg [8], 11/11/2009

Report: "The Dangers for Journalists Who Expose Environmental Issues" [9]

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Around the world, journalists face considerable risks when they expose environmental misdeeds. A new report from Reporters Without Borders/Reporters Sans Frontières looks at 13 cases of journalists and bloggers who have been killed, physically attacked, jailed, threatened or censored for reporting on the environment.
Useful Links [10]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
International [11]
Asia [12]
Europe [13]
Africa [14]
South America [4]
Journalism & Media [15]

SciDev.Net's Climate Change & Insect-borne Disease [16]

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September 10, 2009: SciDev.Net (The Science and Development Network) published a spotlight on the impact of climate change on the spread of insect-borne disease that considers how countries can prepare for these changes.
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [17]
Health [18]
Biodiversity [19]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Region: 
Asia [12]
Africa [14]
Middle East [20]
South America [4]
Central America & the Caribbean [21]

Chile Suppresses Alarming Pollution Data, Says Deputy [22]

"An important opposition deputy this week accused Chile's government of being less than candid with the public about alarming levels of fine particulate pollution found in the nation’s leading cities."
Air [23]
Public [3]
South America [4]
Source: Santiago Times [24], 09/08/2009

"In Brazil, Paying Farmers to Let the Trees Stand" [25]

In Brazil's epicenter of deforestation, an environmental group is offering farmers cash to let the forest stand. The question is whether they can make more by clearing the land and farming it.
Climate Change [17]
Public [3]
South America [4]
Source: NYTimes [26], 08/24/2009

"An Amazon Culture Withers as Food Dries Up" [27]

The indigenous Kamayura tribe in Brazil's rain forest are losing their traditional source of food. The fish are disappearing from their lake as the Amazon region region is made hotter and drier by deforestation -- and some say by climate change.
Forests [28]
Public [3]
South America [4]
Source: NYTimes [29], 07/28/2009

"Fallout Continues from Peru's Killing of Amazon Oil Protesters" [30]

After Peruvian police opened fire June 5, 2009, on indigenous Amazonian people protesting the taking of their land for oil drilling, killing at least 34, some laws have been repealed and some ministers have lost thier jobs.
Activism [31]
Public [3]
South America [4]
Source: SolveClimate [32], 07/14/2009

Peru, Indigenous Groups, Still Deadlocked [33]

Peru remains deadlocked with indigenous groups whose protests of the government's efforts to develop the Amazon region, and a crackdown by police, have left at least 34 dead.
Activism [31]
Public [3]
South America [4]
Source: ENS [34], 06/16/2009

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