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Published: Friday 15 May 2009

>> The Honduran government has prepared a map of environmentally-vulnerable regions in the country. The map "will allow us to put a bigger emphasis on areas most at risk," Marcos Burgos, coordinator of Honduras' Permanent Committee for Contingencies, told the news agency Tierramrica.

>> Greenpeace's Argentina chapter has set up a phone number for anonymous denunciations of illegal runoff into the basin of the Riachuelo, Argentina's most polluted river, which runs south of the capital, Buenos Aires.

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