Assigning and protecting intellectual property rights to use the genetic treasures potentially hidden in the world’s tropical forests is one of the most hotly fought ......
One critical challenge facing environmentally friendly businesses in Latin America is getting another kind of green into their operations—investment dollars. Though more than a few investors ......
To address regulatory weaknesses amid the rapid expansion of Bolivia’s oil and gas industry, the World Bank plans to loan the nation approximately $4.8 million ......
Has Nafta hurt the environment while spurring industrialization? Have U.S. firms found waste disposal in Mexico any easier than at home, or is the picture ......
Until last year, Rodolfo Montiel and his wife Ubalda Cortés were unknown outside the mountain villages of Guerrero state, where they sold clothes and the ......
The Spanish hotel chain Sol Meliá has won Mexican government approval to build a Caribbean coastal resort that opponents say will threaten nesting grounds of ......
For years, relations between northeast Ecuador’s 350 Secoya Indians and Occidental Petroleum fit an all-too-familiar indigenous-vs.-multinational mold. As the U.S. oil company sought to explore the Secoya’s ......
Humberto Piaguaje is former president of the Secoya Indigenous Organization of Ecuador (OISE), the body that has represented Ecuador’s Secoya people in their negotiations with ......
Assigning and protecting intellectual property rights to use the genetic treasures potentially hidden in the world’s tropical forests is one of the most hotly fought ......
One critical challenge facing environmentally friendly businesses in Latin America is getting another kind of green into their operations—investment dollars. Though more than a few investors ......
To address regulatory weaknesses amid the rapid expansion of Bolivia’s oil and gas industry, the World Bank plans to loan the nation approximately $4.8 million ......
Has Nafta hurt the environment while spurring industrialization? Have U.S. firms found waste disposal in Mexico any easier than at home, or is the picture ......
Until last year, Rodolfo Montiel and his wife Ubalda Cortés were unknown outside the mountain villages of Guerrero state, where they sold clothes and the ......
The Spanish hotel chain Sol Meliá has won Mexican government approval to build a Caribbean coastal resort that opponents say will threaten nesting grounds of ......
For years, relations between northeast Ecuador’s 350 Secoya Indians and Occidental Petroleum fit an all-too-familiar indigenous-vs.-multinational mold. As the U.S. oil company sought to explore the Secoya’s ......
Humberto Piaguaje is former president of the Secoya Indigenous Organization of Ecuador (OISE), the body that has represented Ecuador’s Secoya people in their negotiations with ......