Environment
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 00:00
A judge is preparing to render a decision in a long-running, multibillion-dollar lawsuit filed by residents of Ecuador's Amazonian rain forest against Texaco for fouling their land.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 00:00
If the judge rules against Chevron, the company could face the largest damages award ever handed down in an environmental case, dwarfing the $3.9 billion awarded against ExxonMobil for the 1989 spill in Alaska
Monday, April 27, 2009 - 00:00
Biologists in the field have direct encounters with heavily armed smugglers. Ecotourists to the region's biodiversity hotspots, a legal and lucrative economic lifeblood, are deterred by drug violence
Monday, April 27, 2009 - 00:00
Climate change robs Uru Chipaya of lifeline that had sustained them for millennia
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
Colombia is known for its ample supplies of fresh water. But the war -- which began in the 1960s with the birth of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, rebel movement -- has combined with global warming to damage the environment
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 00:00
As Ecuador enforces tighter migration limits on the islands, tension grows over how to balance human development with ecological conservation.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 00:00
Plan would eliminate dense foliage used as hiding places by illegal immigrants and smugglers
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 00:00
Global climate change threatens the complete disappearance of the Andes' tropical glaciers within the next 20 years, putting precious water, energy and food sources at risk, according to a World Bank report
Friday, January 30, 2009 - 00:00
These new “secondary” forests are emerging in Latin America, Asia and other tropical regions at such a fast pace that the trend has set off a serious debate about whether saving primeval rain forest — an iconic environmental cause — may be less ur
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 00:00
Unos 638 indigenas Embera se establecieron en un cerro del noroeste de Colombia que consideran sagrado para impedir el comienzo de un proyecto minero de la Muriel Mining Corporation