Environment
Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 00:00
Ecuador is launching a one-of-a-kind initiative to protect a jungle reserve that contains not only a huge variety of plants and animals but 20 per cent of the country's crude oil.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 00:00
The National Institute for Space Research says satellite imagery shows nearly 2,300 square kilometers (900 square miles) were destroyed in the 12 months through July 31, a 48 percent drop.
Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 00:00
The struggle to protect forests from loggers and land barons landed two 'campesino ecologists' in prison, where they say they were tortured. One of them, in exile, looks to clear his name.
Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 00:00
Una de las principales organizaciones indigenas de Guatemala critico al presidente Álvaro Colom por la inauguracion de la segunda mayor hidroelectrica del pais, Xacbal, construida con capital hondureno por una empresa israeli
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 00:00
Siete jovenes nicaragüenses que participaban en una marcha contra la mineria Las Crucitas no lograron continuar con su protesta porque la Direccion de Migracion y Extranjeria de Costa Rica se los impidio.
Monday, August 9, 2010 - 00:00
Today, the potential exploitation of Bolivian lithium exposes contradictions within Morales's government, and the possibility of social conflict, as multilayered as the salt lake itself.
Friday, August 6, 2010 - 00:00
Last week, his government made history when the U.N. voted unanimously to accept Bolivia's proposal to make water a human right.
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 00:00
Brazil would not be the first nation to become rich from its resources - but its challenge is to compete economically without destroying its environment.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 00:00
Under a pioneering agreement signed with the United Nations, Ecuador will receive about half of what the country would have earned if it had gone ahead with oil production.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 00:00
The Mexican government is planning to make BP and the United States pay for damages and for costs associated with the company's ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.