Biogas and biomethane projects multiply in Brazil

March 2017

Mexico

Mexican bill seen as blow to community forestry

New forestry legislation that is scheduled for debate in the Mexican Senate in the coming weeks has met fierce resistance from foresters, agricultural community leaders, ......

Chile

Huge land donation in Chile for “Route of Parks”

Doug taught us to know Chile, to know these lands.” So said Nicolás Ibáñez, the former owner of a supermarket chain here, at the December ......

Costa Rica

Effectiveness of hammerhead measure questioned

Environmental groups say a moratorium in Costa Rica on the export of hammerhead sharks has done little to cut down on fishing of the species. About ......

Argentina

Move to ease forest protection causes backlash

Of the 12 million hectares (46,000 square miles) of native forest that Argentina’s Córdoba province possessed at the outset of the 20th Century, just two ......

Around the Region

Water diversion from Brazil’s São Francisco River begins

This month, a mammoth system of concrete canals, tunnels and aqueducts began diverting water from Brazil’s São Francisco River to the country’s drought-stricken northeast after ......

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‘Coastal El Niño’ catches Peru by surprise

Benedicta Reyes stood on a riverbank in Huachipa, a neighborhood on the east side of Peru’s capital city, looking at what was left of her ......

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Ecuador’s Atamaint discusses Shuar opposition to Chinese mine

Diana Atamaint, 45, was born in the Ecuadorian Amazon province of Morona Santiago. A member of the Shuar community, she served in Ecuador’s unicameral National ......

Biogas and biomethane projects multiply in Brazil

Brazil

Looking to produce biogas for electric-power generation and biomethane to fuel car and truck fleets, Brazilian companies have begun fermenting and biodegrading everything from sugarcane-ethanol refinery waste to sewage sludge and chicken feces. GEO Energética, a renewable-energy research and development firm, invested US$15 million in 2012 to build Brazil’s only industrial-scale biogas production plant other than facilities that capture methane from landfills. The plant, in the southern state of Paraná, biodegrades two waste products from a local cane-ethanol refinery—sugarcane straw and vinhoto, a liquid byproduct of the ethanol distillation process—to make 14 million cubic meters of biogas annually. The biogas is used to fuel a four-megawatt power station that GEO Energética operates, selling the electricity to... [Log in to read more]

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March 2017

Mexico

Mexican bill seen as blow to community forestry

New forestry legislation that is scheduled for debate in the Mexican Senate in the coming weeks has met fierce resistance from foresters, agricultural community leaders, ......

Chile

Huge land donation in Chile for “Route of Parks”

Doug taught us to know Chile, to know these lands.” So said Nicolás Ibáñez, the former owner of a supermarket chain here, at the December ......

Brazil

Biogas and biomethane projects multiply in Brazil

Costa Rica

Effectiveness of hammerhead measure questioned

Environmental groups say a moratorium in Costa Rica on the export of hammerhead sharks has done little to cut down on fishing of the species. About ......

Argentina

Move to ease forest protection causes backlash

Of the 12 million hectares (46,000 square miles) of native forest that Argentina’s Córdoba province possessed at the outset of the 20th Century, just two ......

Around the Region

Water diversion from Brazil’s São Francisco River begins

This month, a mammoth system of concrete canals, tunnels and aqueducts began diverting water from Brazil’s São Francisco River to the country’s drought-stricken northeast after ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

‘Coastal El Niño’ catches Peru by surprise

Benedicta Reyes stood on a riverbank in Huachipa, a neighborhood on the east side of Peru’s capital city, looking at what was left of her ......

Q&A

Ecuador’s Atamaint discusses Shuar opposition to Chinese mine

Diana Atamaint, 45, was born in the Ecuadorian Amazon province of Morona Santiago. A member of the Shuar community, she served in Ecuador’s unicameral National ......