Brazil has garnered favorable press in recent years for passing a climate-change law and reducing the rate of Amazon deforestation. But these successes stem from ......
The Paraguayan Chaco, a vast expanse of dry thorn forest long considered the nation’s last frontier, was cleared at a rate of 2,000 hectares (4,942 ......
The El Quimbo hydroelectric plant has prompted fierce opposition since 2009, when the Colombian government approved its construction near the headwaters of the country’s most ......
The director of Uruguay’s National Human Rights Institution and Ombudsman’s Office (INDDHH) says his agency plans to prepare a report on public health impacts from ......
Two buoys with sensors to monitor tides and ocean currents have been placed in the waters of Argentina’s southern province of Santa Cruz, the first ......
The Rainforest Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit, prides itself on its ability to help multinational companies improve their labor and environmental practices. That work, the ......
Manual Taricuarima, a shaman of the Peruvian Amazon’s Kukama people, says that when he attended patients here in the past, he would put his hand ......
Every year there is a flurry of excitement as the Brazilian government publishes its annual deforestation report. Produced through analysis of satellite images recorded by ......
Brazil has garnered favorable press in recent years for passing a climate-change law and reducing the rate of Amazon deforestation. But these successes stem from ......
The Paraguayan Chaco, a vast expanse of dry thorn forest long considered the nation’s last frontier, was cleared at a rate of 2,000 hectares (4,942 ......
The El Quimbo hydroelectric plant has prompted fierce opposition since 2009, when the Colombian government approved its construction near the headwaters of the country’s most ......
The director of Uruguay’s National Human Rights Institution and Ombudsman’s Office (INDDHH) says his agency plans to prepare a report on public health impacts from ......
Two buoys with sensors to monitor tides and ocean currents have been placed in the waters of Argentina’s southern province of Santa Cruz, the first ......
The Rainforest Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit, prides itself on its ability to help multinational companies improve their labor and environmental practices. That work, the ......
Manual Taricuarima, a shaman of the Peruvian Amazon’s Kukama people, says that when he attended patients here in the past, he would put his hand ......
Every year there is a flurry of excitement as the Brazilian government publishes its annual deforestation report. Produced through analysis of satellite images recorded by ......