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By Diego Cevallos

Sea Turtles Face Deadly Beaches

Thousands of sea turtles continue to be hacked or beaten to death in Latin America. The seven species that lay their eggs on the region's beaches all face extinction. Options for protecting them will be the center of debate at an international forum Feb. 22-29 in Costa Rica..

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By Adalberto Marcondes

A Nation Runs on Natural Gas

Brazil is beginning construction of a 5,000-km pipeline to transport natural gas imported from Bolivia. By the end of the decade, this fossil fuel will cover 15 percent of the country's energy consumption.

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By Diego Cevallos

A Passport to the Universe

The Papalote Children's Museum in Mexico will inaugurate the world's largest digital dome on Feb. 3, with an interactive spectacle that will transport audiences to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, 15 billion light-years away.

World Economic Forum

Amidst criticisms from civil society groups, more than a thousand executives from the world's biggest corporations, national leaders and economists gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, a defender of the current globalization process. Just days early, in Mumbai, India, some 100,000 people gathered to assert that "another world is possible."

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