Environment
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 00:00
An Ecuadoran judge fined Chevron Corp. more than $8 billion Monday in a bitter, 18-year-old lawsuit over oil-field contamination in the Amazon rain forest.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 00:00
A court in Ecuador has fined US oil giant Chevron $8.6bn (£5.3bn) for polluting a large part of the country's Amazon region.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 00:00
A judge in a tiny courtroom in the Ecuadorean Amazon ruled Monday that the oil giant Chevron was responsible for polluting remote tracts of Ecuadorean jungle and ordered the company to pay more than $9 billion in damages, one of the largest environmental
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 00:00
US oil giant Chevron says it will appeal against an $8.6bn (£5.3bn) fine imposed by Ecuador judges, carrying on a long-running row over pollution.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 00:00
Indigenous tribes, backed by environmentalists, on Tuesday delivered a petition demanding Brazil's government scrap a controversial 11-billion-dollar dam project in the Amazon jungle.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 00:00
Belo Monte, criticized by "Avatar" director James Cameron last year because of its environmental damage, will flood 516 square kilometers (199 square miles) of rainforest and require relocation of about 1,000 Indians.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 00:00
Social mobilisation against gold-mining is growing in Colombia, which is now one of the world's biggest per capita polluters of mercury.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 00:00
The new administration soon sacked the president of the country's environmental agency (Ibama) and then authorised the construction of the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric power plant.
Monday, January 31, 2011 - 00:00
Fears of bloodshed have gutted tourism to the 216-square-mile reserve where the butterflies roost in the high mountains of Michoacan and Mexico states.
Friday, January 28, 2011 - 00:00
Brazil's environment agency approved on Wednesday the start-up of the Belo Monte power dam, a controversial $17 billion project in the Amazon that has
drawn criticism from native Indians and conservationists.