Environment
Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 00:00
What is happening here in the remote northeast of Honduras shows how quickly the most successful conservation efforts can be reversed when state structures collapse.
Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 00:00
Scores of people have been killed in brutal land battles in rural Honduras but authorities have failed -- or refused -- to investigate, possibly bowing to moneyed interests.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 07:38
The United Nations appealed on Monday for more than $2 billion to feed and care for a record 20 million people across Africa's Sahel belt, but aid workers said they feared donor fatigue and a weak global recovery may prevent them from reaching the target.
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 00:00
Reuters accompanied agents from the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, for the start of a month-long sting against people felling the rainforest
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 00:00
Colombian authorities fined Drummond $3.6 million last year after a sinking barge dumped about 500 tons of coal into the Caribbean. The company will face another fine for violating the new rules this month
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 00:00
Small farmers and a Catholic nun are facing a violent backlash as they develop a project to protect the rainforest
Friday, January 3, 2014 - 07:50
Land grievances have spawned militias and fueled ethnic violence, exacerbating the instability in a region far removed from the government in the west.
Meetings of the U.S.-Colombia Environmental Affairs Council and Environmental Cooperation Commission
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 00:00
The Governments of the United States and Colombia will hold the first meetings of the Environmental Affairs Council and the Environmental Cooperation Commission December 18-19, 2013.
Friday, November 15, 2013 - 00:00
Environmentalists blame the increase on a loosening of Brazil's environmental laws. They also say that the government's push for big infrastructure projects like dams, roads and railways is pushing deforestation.
Friday, November 15, 2013 - 00:00
The changes reduced protected areas in farms and declared an amnesty for areas destroyed before 2008.