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 Rare Tornado Hits Bogota, Colombia
 Reuters
A rare tornado hit the Colombian capital of Bogota lifting the roof off a local car dealership. Although tornadoes are common in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean, they rarely hit further south.
Crocodiles, Snakes Spark Worry in Flooded Mexico Villages
 Pablo Perez
Crocodiles and snakes taking to flooded streets are posing a new risk in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco, which has been devastated by 10 days of flooding.
Calderón Blames Floods on Climate Change
 Cox News
In one of the country's worst flooding disasters, as many as 500,000 people are homeless and at least 10 are dead after rainwater and swollen rivers washed over 80 percent of Tabasco state last week. But as cleanup efforts finally begin, exhausted residents and angry officials alike are pointing fingers.
Despite "Historic" Vote, Groups Say Climate Bill Needs Improvement
 Latoya Irvine & Jim Snyder
Environmental advocates used terms like "historic," "milestone" and "turning point" to describe a split Senate subcommittee's vote on Thursday in favor of a bill that would impose for the first time a cap on greenhouse gas emissions.
Mexico's Run of Bad Luck
 Haroon Siddique
Mexico has had to cope with more than its fair share of natural disasters. As well as floods, the country is exposed to the risks of hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts, volcanic eruptions, mudslides, wild fires and extreme temperatures.
Getting Green by Going Green
 New America Media
Even though, saving the environment is more popular than ever – the stereotypical green movement youth is white and privileged. But one young Mexican American man from San Jose, says he learned his sustainable ways from his farming grandparents in Mexico and his sanitation worker family.
Groups Attack Waiver Power for Chertoff
 Suzanne Gamboa
Congress violated the Constitution by allowing the homeland security chief to waive laws so the government could build fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border, two environmental groups said Thursday.
Civilisation Ends With a Shutdown of Human Concern. Are We There Already?
 George Monbiot
Cormac McCarthy's book The Road considers what would happen if the world lost its biosphere, and the only living creatures were humans, hunting for food among the dead wood and soot.
Wildfires Raise Questions With No Easy Answers
 dpa
In an era when global warming is mixing hotter summers with drier winters, what could be more foolhardy than promoting a building boom in one of the most wildfire prone zones in the US? Plenty, it turns out.
Researchers To Auction Butterfly Naming Rights Online
 Nidhi Sharma
In attempt to raise money for their research, the University of Florida researchers George Austin and Andrew Warren are offering to sell the naming rights for a newly discovered species online.
Much of US Could See a Water Shortage
 Brian Skoloff
An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn't have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York's reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year. Across America, the picture is critically clear - the nation's freshwater supplies can no longer quench its thirst.
Humanity Is Putting Earth, and Itself, At Risk, UN Environment Report Says
 James Kanter
The human population is living far beyond its means and inflicting damage to the environment that could pass points of no return, according to a major report being issued on Thursday by the United Nations.
Wolf Supporters Seek to Overturn Grazing Decisions
 Associated Press
Two environmental groups have filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that decisions by the U.S. Forest Service to allow grazing on the Gila National Forest were made without public participation or consideration of endangered species such as the Mexican gray wolf.
Preserving and Protecting the Environment 
 Laura Gelezunas
As Puerto Vallarta's leading tour company, Vallarta Adventures is taking an active stance in the sustainable development of ecotourism. Key elements include maintaining essential ecological processes and helping to conserve biodiversity.
River Treasure vs. U.S. Security
 Brady McCombs
A stretch of border, part of the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, is smack in the middle of the latest showdown between environmentalists and the Department of Homeland Security over a proposed border fence.
UCSC Researchers Helps Mexican Fishermen Save Endangered Sea Creature
 Alissa Poh
Loggerhead turtles are facing extinction — but not because of annihilation by huge factory trawlers plying the oceans A new study shows that loggerhead turtles are 10 to 100 times as likely to die through small-scale Mexican fisheries off the coast of Baja California as from all of the industrial fishing fleets in the North Pacific Ocean combined.
Wildlife at Border May Lose Sanctuary
 Miguel Bustillo
The federal government's plan to fence off more than 300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border is fostering strange political bedfellows here in South Texas.
Protecting Mexico's Natural Resources
 PVNN
At the Parks in Peril event with The Nature Conservancy, CONANP and SEMARNAT in Mexico City on October 15, 2007, US Ambassador Antonio O. Garza committed to bilateral cooperation on environmental issues with Mexico.
Congo Pygmies Go High-Tech to Protect Forest Home
 Reuters
When Congo Republic's northern pygmies go out into the forest these days, some will be carrying hand-held satellite tracking devices along with their traditional bows and spears.
Gore and UN Panel Win Peace Prize
 Associated Press
Al Gore and the U.N.'s Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.
Latin America Has Turned Its Back on the Sea
 Marcela Valente
Latin America and the Caribbean have as much land territory as marine area. But while more than 10 percent of the land is protected, not even one percent of the sea is.
Judge Delays Part of Ariz.-Mexico Fence
 Suzanne Gamboa
A federal judge temporarily delayed construction Wednesday of a 1.5-mile section of a U.S.-Mexico border fence in a wildlife conservation area on the Arizona-Mexico border.
Ecomaterials for Low-Cost, Hurricane-Proof Housing
 Patricia Grogg
Low-income Cuban families now have a greater chance of having a home of their own thanks to a prize-winning construction method that uses strong, locally-produced alternative materials.
Genetically Engineered Corn May Harm Stream Ecosystems
 National Science Foundation
A new study indicates that a popular type of genetically engineered corn - called Bt corn - may damage the ecology of streams draining Bt corn fields in ways that have not been previously considered by regulators.
Conservation Groups Seek to Block Fence Construction
 Associated Press
wo conservation organizations are seeking a temporary restraining order to stop construction of a stretch of fencing along the Arizona-Mexico border within a treasured riparian area.
Gore Discusses Global Warming in Mexico
 S. Lynne Walker
Global warming isn't a popular topic in Mexican political circles, but Al Gore traveled to Mexico this week for the second time in two months because he has found a receptive audience in President Felipe Calderón.
Conservation Expands in Latin America
 Marcela Valente
In the past 10 years the size of protected areas in Latin America has nearly doubled and the participation of local communities in their preservation and management has sharply increased, says a regional study provided exclusively to Tierramérica.
Americans Consider Global Warming an Urgent Threat
 Yale University
A growing number of Americans consider global warming an important threat that calls for drastic action, and 40% say that a presidential candidate’s position on the issue will strongly influence how they vote, according to a national survey conducted by Yale University, Gallup and the ClearVision Institute.
Bush Warns Climate Change Fight Must Not Slow Growth
 Agence France-Presse
US President George W. Bush warned Friday that the fight against climate change must not impede economic growth in a closely-watched speech to the world's 16 biggest greenhouse-gas polluters.
Bush Gets Dinner While Protesters Fast
 Kelpie Wilson
More than 80 heads of state met at the UN on Monday to discuss the launch of post-Kyoto climate negotiations. Although this was the most high-level UN meeting yet held on the global climate emergency, President Bush refused to attend. He did, however, assent to an invitation from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to attend a private dinner afterward.
Commission Throws Out Complaint Against Seal Hunt
 The Canadian Press
A North American environmental commission has dismissed an application by two Mexican animal-rights groups that say the seal hunt violates an international agreement on environmental protection.
Enjoy the Migration of Monarch Butterflies
 Melody Bell Wilkes
The monarch is perhaps the best-known American butterfly and September is the best time to see them. With their large orange and black wings, monarchs are a familiar site in a range of habitats. They frequent open fields, pastures, marshes and roadsides.
Mexico Releases Thousands Of Turtles
 KWTX.com
More than 60,000 turtles were released as part of a program to preserve endangered species in Ixtapilla, Mexico on Saturday, under the watchful eye of dozens of children and adults.
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