Environment
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 00:00
An American whose secret recordings have placed him at the center of a $27 billion lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador is a convicted drug trafficker, records show, throwing another complication into a case
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 00:00
El canciller Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde, afirmo hoy que un tratado de libre comercio no da carta blanca a la deforestacion y a la contaminacion
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 00:00
"The man they've portrayed as a Good Samaritan is actually a convicted drug trafficker who has led a life that has skirted the edge of the law for many years," said Steve Donziger
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 00:00
Ecuador's president is in London this week to promote a unique proposal: pay his country $3 billion not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon reserve
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 00:00
Germany and Spain have expressed interest in President Rafael Correa's idea, which environmentalists say could set a precedent in the fight against global warming by lowering the high cost to poor countries of going green.
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 00:00
A global campaign will make young people aware of the danger the illicit drug trade represents to hundreds of species in Colombia's rainforests
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 00:00
"Some people sing in the shower, stay in the shower for half an hour," he fumed in a televised Cabinet meeting, according to the Daily Mail.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 00:00
Speaking at the World Forestry Congress, representatives of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay said their governments are committed to achieving "net zero deforestation"
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 00:00
Al Jazeera reports on how rising temperatures caused by climate change mean that diseases originally only seen in tropical areas are spreading to the mountains.
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 00:00
Brazil wants to forge a common position among all Amazon basin countries for a global climate summit later this year, the country's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said on Monday.