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Colombia's legislature has passed a tough environmental sanctions regime with "teeth", if not "fangs."

A recent report commissioned by the Andean Community (CAN) concludes that by 2025 the impacts of global climate change will cost the four CAN nations together about US$30 billion annually, or roughly an average 4.5% of their annual gross domestic product (GDP).

How can individuals and small businesses ensure that the money they spend offsetting their carbon really reaches the people who need it most? Mercy Corps has an answer.

Currently many carbon offset projects are often too arduous or expensive to reach small communities who are desperately in need in developing countries. As a result, those communities remain neglected without a potentially profitable and environmentally friendly project opportunity.

A new fair trade project that just like http://www.incakids.org is self funded and strives to lift from poverty unprivileged artisans in South America.   These projects are for-profit ventures benefiting the poorest artisans in developing countries, providing them with an opportunity to get a sustainable employment and wage.

It's a good thing this frog is small, because it doesn't have much room to maneuver. This newly discovered species of poison frog is a mere 0.8 inch (2 centimeters) long and exists only in a patch of forest about the size of ten city blocks.