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Mystical Venice.
Credit: www.rrm.cl

By Francesca Colombo

Venice Doesn't Want to Be Another New Orleans

A gigantic engineering project, slated for completion in 2010, aims to save the mystical Italian city of canals from the encroaching sea. Environmental groups sound the alarm on the work's potential environmental impact.

Accents

Bolivian children working in mines.
Credit: Javier Mamani.

By José Luis Alcázar

Childhood in the Pit

More than 13,500 children and adolescents work in small mining operations in Bolivia, exposed to toxic gases, accidents and explosions. Their life expectancy is just 45 years.

Accents

By Marcela Valente

Health Authorities Silent on Dangers of Sun's Rays

The hole in the ozone layer reached record size over southern Argentina in September. But there were no special measures by the government to alert the population about the dangers of ultraviolet radiation.

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Mauricio Ramos.

By the Tierramérica Editor's Desk

Thousands of Kilometers with Camera in Hand

Photographer Mauricio Ramos will cross Mexico on foot, from the United States border in the north, to Guatemala in the south, in a challenging five-month adventure covering 3,100 km. Ramos hopes for an abundant harvest of images of nature and of the people he encounters.

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