Radioactive cargo roils Argentina, Chile

January 2001

Colombia (Free Read)

Colombia launches ambitious reforestation drive

Faced with a devastating loss of wilderness, Colombia has unveiled a landmark “Green Plan” to involve poor rural communities in the restoration of 395,000 acres ......

Bolivia

Bolivian protest may prompt green retreat

When the Bolivian government recently forged an agreement with campesino groups to end a blockade of the nation’s roads, the move was described as political ......

Nuclear transport

Radioactive cargo roils Argentina, Chile

A British ship carrying radioactive waste around Cape Horn has left angry protests in its wake in Argentina and Chile, boosting pressure on the two ......

Sustainable farming

Hurricane study highlights farming methods

Hurricane Mitch, the storm that devastated Central America in October 1998, blew and rained so hard it would have wreaked havoc anywhere. But even before the ......

Mexico

Canadian warship in eye of Acapulco storm

Controversy is stalling an artificial-reef project that calls for a former Canadian warship to be sunk in Acapulco Bay. The reason: lack of an environmental ......

Around the Region

After Salvadoran slide, a debate about causes

Environmentalists charge deforestation and construction on the slopes of the Balsamo Mountains contributed to the massive landslide that killed hundreds of people in the Las ......

Centerpiece

Gas gains prominence in energy picture

Hydropower plants have generated the lion’s share of Latin America’s electricity for decades. But while hydro stations still account for nearly 60% of the region’s ......

Q&A

Expert says Ecuador’s mangroves still under siege

Elmer López, a renewable-resources engineer from Guatemala, monitors coastal ecosystems for the environmental group Greenpeace. To check the state of mangrove stands in Ecuador, he ......

Radioactive cargo roils Argentina, Chile

Nuclear transport

A British ship carrying radioactive waste around Cape Horn has left angry protests in its wake in Argentina and Chile, boosting pressure on the two nations to strengthen their opposition to such shipments. Pacific Swan, loaded with 76.8 tons of vitrified, high-level nuclear waste, passed near Argentina and Chile this month as it rounded Cape Horn on its way from France to Japan. The vessel, owned by Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL), did not cross either country’s 12-mile (19-km) territorial limit. But it did sail through each one’s 200-mile (320-km) Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), over which environmentalists want the two countries to assert jurisdiction to block further shipments. Pacific Swan left Cherbourg, France on Dec. 19, bound for the Japanese... [Log in to read more]

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January 2001

Colombia (Free Read)

Colombia launches ambitious reforestation drive

Faced with a devastating loss of wilderness, Colombia has unveiled a landmark “Green Plan” to involve poor rural communities in the restoration of 395,000 acres ......

Bolivia

Bolivian protest may prompt green retreat

When the Bolivian government recently forged an agreement with campesino groups to end a blockade of the nation’s roads, the move was described as political ......

Nuclear transport

Radioactive cargo roils Argentina, Chile

A British ship carrying radioactive waste around Cape Horn has left angry protests in its wake in Argentina and Chile, boosting pressure on the two ......

Sustainable farming

Hurricane study highlights farming methods

Hurricane Mitch, the storm that devastated Central America in October 1998, blew and rained so hard it would have wreaked havoc anywhere. But even before the ......

Mexico

Canadian warship in eye of Acapulco storm

Controversy is stalling an artificial-reef project that calls for a former Canadian warship to be sunk in Acapulco Bay. The reason: lack of an environmental ......

Around the Region

After Salvadoran slide, a debate about causes

Environmentalists charge deforestation and construction on the slopes of the Balsamo Mountains contributed to the massive landslide that killed hundreds of people in the Las ......

Centerpiece

Gas gains prominence in energy picture

Hydropower plants have generated the lion’s share of Latin America’s electricity for decades. But while hydro stations still account for nearly 60% of the region’s ......

Q&A

Expert says Ecuador’s mangroves still under siege

Elmer López, a renewable-resources engineer from Guatemala, monitors coastal ecosystems for the environmental group Greenpeace. To check the state of mangrove stands in Ecuador, he ......