Argentine economic expectations surged in 2011, when the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that the country possessed among the world’s largest shale oil and shale ......
Given the extensive damage it does to the seafloor, bottom-trawling for shrimp can be likened to felling forests to catch squirrels. Quite valuable squirrels, to ......
The wildfires closed in on Brazil’s Hyacinth Macaw Institute on Aug. 1. Within a week, they had torched two thirds of the nonprofit institute’s 54,000-hectare ......
Representatives of nearly 200 countries are scheduled to gather in Cali, Colombia next month to try to make global biodiversity conservation real. The occasion is ......
As a report issued this month underscored Latin America’s dubious distinction as the world’s deadliest region for environmental and land-rights defenders, the murder in Honduras ......
Six Chilean and international organizations announced in September a “Declaration of Rights of the Biobío River” that aims to spark a locally based movement ......
On a muggy morning in mid-August, a dozen leaders from four Indigenous communities in Peru’s lower Marañón River Valley crowded into the second-floor courtroom in ......
With bottom-trawling for shrimp widely viewed as irredeemably destructive (see related story—this issue), shrimp-farming is often portrayed as a more benign means of producing the ......
