Environment
Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 00:00
Avian Enthusiasts Flock to Former War Zone; Spotting the Rare Yellow-Headed Brush-Finch
Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 00:00
For several months, the Peruvian smelting company in Mr. Rennert's empire has claimed that low metals prices prevented it from completing a timely cleanup to lower the emissions that have given this town such an ignoble distinction.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 00:00
Brazil's government hopes that land reform in the Amazon will slow deforestation. Greens doubt it
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 00:00
Yuri Melini was shot seven times by an assailant nine months ago. The outspoken champion of environmental causes has made many enemies, and gained recognition too
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 00:00
Rio's state government calls this wall and others like it "ecobarriers" to prevent Rio's favelas, or shantytowns, from steadily expanding across the city's scenic, heavily forested hillsides
Monday, June 8, 2009 - 00:00
Whatever the explanations, the events have caused unease among Chileans - a sense of guilt over not doing enough to protect their country's spectacularly rich wildlife
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 00:00
U.S. Agency for International Development plans to spend $155 million over the next five years on stabilizing some of Haiti's most denuded hillsides
Monday, June 1, 2009 - 00:00
We are writing to express our concerns about news reports indicating that the Chevron corporation has requested your office to withhold U.S. trade preferences for Ecuador
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 00:00
The idea envisions wealthy countries effectively paying Ecuador to leave its oil -- and the carbon dioxide that would result from using it -- in the ground
Friday, May 22, 2009 - 00:00
Ecology and culture at stake say environmentalists, as government plans to exploit rainforest for oil, gas and timber