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Machu Picchu draws 2,500 tourists each day. /Photo credit: Mauricio Ramos

By Abraham Lama

Threat to Machu Picchu: Too Many Tourists

The Peruvian government is finalizing a plan to protect the legendary Inca city of Machu Picchu. But the tourism industry opposes cutting the number of visitors to the Andean mountaintop ruins.

By Marcela Valente

Clean Patagonian Energy from Wind and Hydrogen

A small village in the far south of Argentina hopes to free itself of dependence on fossil fuels by 2008.

In this section, Tierramérica shares letters from our readers. If you'd like to send us your comments, please write to: cartas@tierramerica.org.

Honduran fires wipe out 35,000 hectares of forest... Bio-insecticide kills dengue mosquitoes in Brazil... Windmills improve life in Cuban rural communities... Venezuela not recycling much garbage... Most Chileans favor smoking restrictions...

Credit: Mauricio Ramos.

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