Environment
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 00:00
Chevron Corp. is sharpening its attacks against two opponents in a 15-year legal battle over whether the oil company should foot a multibillion-dollar bill to clean up a toxic stew in the Amazon rainforests.
Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 00:00
Two Ecuadoreans pursued legal action against Texaco and then Chevron over what they said was massive oil contamination
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 00:00
Building large-scale hydroelectric dams is an old-world way of obtaining energy. It is too late in the environmental life of this planet to accept such ecologically destructive energy solutions
Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 00:00
The Environmental Movement of Olancho (MAO being its Spanish acronym), led by Father Tamayo, a Catholic priest from the Olanchano town of Salama, has led the people of Olancho against the loggers for the past half decade
Friday, March 21, 2008 - 00:00
After three years of declining rates of deforestation, satellite images released in January showed that as much as 2,700 square miles of land in the Brazilian Amazon had been cleared in the final five months of 2007
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 00:00
Some 160 Brazilian troops have been sent to the Amazon to join hundreds of police officers involved in efforts to tackle illegal deforestation
Monday, February 25, 2008 - 00:00
Counter-narcotics officials estimate that narcos have carved out as many as 4,000 coca sites in the Macarena, each averaging no more than 4 acres
Friday, February 22, 2008 - 00:00
El presidente de Brasil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, dijo el jueves que los paises ricos deben pagar costos mas altos para proteger el Amazonas
Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 00:00
"There is no other way to get money," the father said, pushing his saw through wood that will earn him as much as $12.50, depending on how many planks it produces
Friday, February 15, 2008 - 00:00
El gobierno y la Procuraduria anunciaron ayer que aun estan intentando confirmar una denuncia sobre la muerte de indigenas que viven en la selva amazonica, que habrian sido asesinados a tiros por madereros ilegales