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A stretch of the Amazon River in Peru. Sustainable use of biodiversity could bring prosperity to the Andes. / Photo credit: Photo Stock

By Humberto Márquez

Andean Nations Bet on Bio-Trade

The extraordinary biological wealth of South America's Andean countries is beginning to pay off for those who take advantage of it, feeding the demands of the international market.

A dangerous mountain of lead slag awaits elimination. / Photo credit: Courtesy of the Latin American Studies Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

By Katherine Stapp

Cleaning Up Lead Contamination Along Mexican-U.S. Border

The inter-governmental program Border 2012 has begun to clean up toxic industrial waste that for a decade have been a presence in the lives of 10,000 people near the Mexican border city of Tijuana.

Argentine activists draft bill to protect 'caldén' tree... UNEP backs studies of Andean glacial melt in Peru... Colombia to reforest 3,000 hectares... Paying for forest and monarch butterfly care in Mexico... Guatemalan program promotes literacy and reforestation...

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