Environment
Monday, August 11, 2008 - 00:00
"If any country can do it, it's Costa Rica," said Sergio Musmanni, who is helping to lead the government's new national climate change strategy.
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
Nearly 30,000 Amazon residents are seeking $12 billion from Chevron for dumping billions of gallons of toxic oil waste. According to Newsweek, the oil giant is urging the Bush administration to yank special trade preferences for Ecuador
Monday, July 28, 2008 - 00:00
"Today, about one trillion litres of gasoline are used in the world, and 10% of that could come from renewable fuel such as ethanol from Brazil and other tropical countries.
Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 00:00
For now, Colombia is reaping a windfall. Known for legal exports such as coffee, bananas and oil as well as illegal tonnage of cocaine, it has quietly become a world player in coal
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 00:00
Los presidentes Hugo Chavez, de Venezuela, Evo Morales, de Bolivia y Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, de Brasil, firmaran el proximo viernes un convenio de desarrollo y proteccion de la Amazonia
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 00:00
Illegal immigrants are ferried through this once unspoiled natural kingdom where drug traffickers land planes in fields carved from ancient forests
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
MEXICO CITY—A tropical depression scattered rains across Mexico's Pacific coast on Sunday and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said it was likely to reach tropical storm force.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 00:00
Environmental advocates lauded the move but warned that it must be the first of many if Brazil is to have any chance of seriously stemming deforestation.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 00:00
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A group that campaigns for tribal peoples' rights denied on Tuesday that it and the Brazilian government had misled the media over photographs of an uncontacted Indian tribe in the Amazon last month.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil --
Grain crushers have extended a two-year-old moratorium on the purchase of soybeans planted in areas of the Amazon rain forest cut down after 2006, Brazil's environment minister said Tuesday.