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Latin America has vast tracts of sparsely populated areas of high biodiversity, in the Amazon and the Andes for instance. The GLOBIO analysis shows that these areas have seen little human impact, [..]
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According to the World Resources Institute,Brazil had the highest carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in the region in 2001, primarily due to changes in land use.) Most of the region’s forests are in [..]
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Curitiba has become world-famous for its original approach
to basic municipal problems thanks to a unique mixture of
innovative town planning, determined political leadership
and good public [..]
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In the 1980s severe hygienic problems plagued parts of
Curitiba where housing development was uncontrolled. The
winding streets were too narrow for council trucks and waste
rotting in the open [..]
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The urbanisation of the population has been happening since the first city, and is rapidly increasing in rate - especially since the dawn of industrialization. The Andean community consists out of [..]
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In Buenos Aires informal waste collectors recover 9 to 17 per cent of municipal waste, representing an estimated
saving for the municipality of US$30 000 to US$70 000 a
day or US$3.5 to US$7 per [..]
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There are indications of changes in precipitation patterns over Latin America and the Caribbean during the last decades.
In Argentina, for example, precipitation increases have been observed over [..]
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Many disasters have been recorded from the glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca. The 1962 and 1970 events originating from Glaciar 511 on the Nevados Huascarán, the highest peak of which is at 6768 m [..]
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There is now ample evidence of a major retreat of most mountain glaciers during the last 100 years in response to widespread increases in temperature. In recent decades, the rate of glacial recession [..]
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Several mountain glaciers now disappear at a frightening rate as in the Santa Rosa glacier of Peru.
A warmer climate often leads to increased precipitation. Much of the increased precipitation comes [..]
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With spectacular mountain peak glaciers melting away, the NEvado de Santa Isabel area in Colombia becomes less attractive to tourists. In addition, the local forestry and agricultural fertility suffer [..]
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Shows comparative trend between air temperature in Colombia and levels of malaria and dengue fever. When temperatures increase, especially in combination with more precipitation, vector borne [..]
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Shows the retreat of the glacier on the volcano Nevado Santa Isabel and the correlation of global warming.
With spectacular mountain peak glaciers melting away, the area becomes less attractive to [..]
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Agriculture is a key sector in the region’s economy and it employs an important proportion of the economically active population. Climate change could adversely affect Latin American agricultural [..]
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In Brazil there are noticeable benefits for using alcohol as a fuel over traditional gasoline. This graphic illustrates the reduction in use of fossil fuels (gasoline) in favor of ethanol/alcohol. [..]
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