Environment
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 00:00
In Copenhagen they are debating how to end deforestation, but in Cuba's Pinar del Rio they were replanting 50 years ago, creating lush, unspoilt valleys
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 00:00
If the water problems are not solved, El Alto, a poor sister city of La Paz, could perhaps be the first large urban casualty of climate change
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 00:00
I had head about what has been called "Chevron’s Chernobyl in the Amazon" for years. But nothing could prepare me for the horror I witnessed during my three-day visit to Ecuador.
Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 00:00
Brazilian tribes should be entitled to billions of carbon credits in return for sustainable management of their forests
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 00:00
Morales has demanded that industrialized countries fork over what some have called "climate reparations": mandatory compensation to developing nations for the increasingly devastating effects of CO2 emissions
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 00:00
Washington must resist efforts by Chevron to interfere with a Andean trade agreement
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 00:00
Thirty-two palm producers, about 80 per cent of the Colombian industry, have agreed to cut 757,000 tonnes a year of methane emissions, and harness residual emissions to create up to 200 megawatts of renewable energy
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 00:00
A thick brown sludge is tarnishing its once blue waters. It is the result of decades of ecological imbalance, brought on by economic and demographic pressures
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 00:00
But their traditions are coming under siege, and anthropologists say it is a wonder that their cultures remain intact at all. Among the daunting challenges they face are a thriving illicit bush-meat trade, incursions by gold miners and the government's re
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 00:00
The reality is that Amazonian countries have conflicting conservation strategies, not least because limited finance is on offer in the climate talks, and each government is looking to maximize its share