Environment
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 00:00
The reversal in policy has angered some of the early pioneers who turned forest into farmland.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 00:00
The United States and Mexico reached agreement on Monday on regulating oil and gas development along their maritime border in the Gulf of Mexico.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 00:00
Una cantidad indeterminada de petroleo que se derramo hace dos semanas en el estado Monagas podria dejar graves consecuencias medioambientales.
Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 00:00
El gobierno y un grupo de nativos y colonos oficialistas acordaron una consulta sobre la construccion de una carretera por una reserva ecologica en el centro de Bolivia.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 00:00
Official forecasts indicate that mining output will grow at 8.5 percent a year over the period 2011-2014, and 40 transnational corporations are in-country for a slice of the action.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 00:00
Miles de indigenas de la Amazonia llegaron este lunes a La Paz tras caminar 400 kilometros en 40 dias para exigir al presidente boliviano, Evo Morales, que autorice la construccion de una ruta a traves de una reserva natural, que fue prohibida en el 2011.
Monday, January 30, 2012 - 00:00
La Silla Vacia viajo al Choco, uno de los departamentos donde tendra mayor impacto la decision que tome Santos frente a los mineros informales y donde se puede apreciar la complejidad del problema.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 00:00
The debate over the law has revealed the stark disconnect between a population that is increasingly supportive of conserving the Amazon and a Congress in which agricultural interests in the country's rural north and northeast still hold sway.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 00:00
Spurred by rising global demand for the metal, miners are destroying invaluable rainforest in Peru's Amazon basin.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 00:00
Miles de vecinos se movilizan en la noroccidental provincia argentina de La Rioja para impedir la explotacion de una mina de oro a cielo abierto en el cerro nevado de Famatina.