Despite fierce criticism, the Ecuadorian government has signed a contract for construction of a 310-mile (500-km) crude-oil pipeline that will run in part through the ......
Like many other residents of this community in southern Peru’s Ayacucho department, Alejandro Oriundo grows corn, potatoes and carrots. No surprise there. But from June to ......
The Swiss-based Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS) plans to open Brazil’s first laboratory devoted to certifying whether corn and soy grown here is genetically modified. Located ......
Mexico has appealed an international trade panel’s decision to award Metalclad Corp. $16.7 million for losses the California company incurred in building a Mexican hazardous-waste ......
When the Maya Biosphere Reserve was created in 1990, local residents like Ernesto Pérez quickly were seen as the enemy. Pérez and some of his ......
Guatemala this month announced the termination of a controversial contract for oil exploration in a coveted national park. In a move that environmentalists described as ......
Preparations for the meal start at 7 a.m. A fisherman pulls up to the one-story stucco restaurant in his Chevrolet Camaro and opens the trunk. ......
Liszett Torres Zapata, 35, is environment undersecretary for Ecuador’s energy ministry. Her duties include monitoring energy and mining projects and evaluating environmental-impact studies. From 1995 ......
Despite fierce criticism, the Ecuadorian government has signed a contract for construction of a 310-mile (500-km) crude-oil pipeline that will run in part through the ......
Like many other residents of this community in southern Peru’s Ayacucho department, Alejandro Oriundo grows corn, potatoes and carrots. No surprise there. But from June to ......
The Swiss-based Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS) plans to open Brazil’s first laboratory devoted to certifying whether corn and soy grown here is genetically modified. Located ......
Mexico has appealed an international trade panel’s decision to award Metalclad Corp. $16.7 million for losses the California company incurred in building a Mexican hazardous-waste ......
When the Maya Biosphere Reserve was created in 1990, local residents like Ernesto Pérez quickly were seen as the enemy. Pérez and some of his ......
Guatemala this month announced the termination of a controversial contract for oil exploration in a coveted national park. In a move that environmentalists described as ......
Preparations for the meal start at 7 a.m. A fisherman pulls up to the one-story stucco restaurant in his Chevrolet Camaro and opens the trunk. ......
Liszett Torres Zapata, 35, is environment undersecretary for Ecuador’s energy ministry. Her duties include monitoring energy and mining projects and evaluating environmental-impact studies. From 1995 ......