Environment
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 00:00
In the last half-century, thanks to dams that throttled the Colorado and diverted its water to fuel the rise of the American West, the river has effectively ended at the Mexican border
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 00:00
Manati (Atlantico) es la primera poblacion que debio moverse por las lluvias
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
Alleged mastermind behind killing of two environmental activists set free, disappointing family of murdered couple.
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
Para is among Brazil's most violent and lawless states, notorious for land-related violence, contract killings, slave-like labor conditions and wanton environmental destruction
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
The men were sentenced to more than 40 years in prison. A third man accused of masterminding the attack was acquitted
Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 00:00
Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria, were gunned down near a reserve in the jungle state of Para, where they taught farmers how to use land in a sustainable manner.
Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 00:00
The murder was the first in a series of 10 over a three-month period in the Amazon, most of them in Para, one of the Brazilian states hardest hit by violence by local loggers and ranchers against rural workers and their supporters
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 00:00
Indigenous groups in the Pastaza River basin near the Ecuador border have been complaining for years about the pollution and the failure of successive governments to address it.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - 00:00
In Colombia's Andean mountains, the retreat of its glaciers is already affecting local water supplies
Monday, March 4, 2013 - 00:00
Solamente en el 2012 las autoridades ambientales se incautaron de 3.900 metros cubicos de madera que son alrededor de 20 hectareas (200 kilometros cuadrados de bosque)