Brazil is making a concerted push to promote alternative energy, though in the early going the effort faces uncertainties, charges of unfairness and an apparent ......
Getting a good cup of java in Mexico, the world’s fifth biggest coffee producer, can be surprisingly hard. Many bars and restaurants only serve instant ......
A controversial forestry regulation that took effect this month sparked more than a week of protests in the southeastern jungle town of Puerto Maldonado, leaving ......
Efforts to amend a raft of laws decreed late last year could reverse advances in coastal-zone and marine-life protection, environmental advocates say. At issue are 49 ......
Leaders of the tri-national environmental agency created under the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) have promised to provide stakeholders a forum for discussion of ......
Peru on June 26 joined Belize and El Salvador on the list of Latin nations that have made environmental investments in return for a reduction ......
Planting trees is not always viewed as an environmental plus. Consider Brazil, where commercial tree plantations cover an estimated 12 million acres (five million hectares). Plantation ......
Brazilian Environment Minister José Carlos Carvalho took office in March following the resignation of José Sarney Filho. Carvalho, a forest engineer with a degree from ......
Brazil is making a concerted push to promote alternative energy, though in the early going the effort faces uncertainties, charges of unfairness and an apparent ......
Getting a good cup of java in Mexico, the world’s fifth biggest coffee producer, can be surprisingly hard. Many bars and restaurants only serve instant ......
A controversial forestry regulation that took effect this month sparked more than a week of protests in the southeastern jungle town of Puerto Maldonado, leaving ......
Efforts to amend a raft of laws decreed late last year could reverse advances in coastal-zone and marine-life protection, environmental advocates say. At issue are 49 ......
Leaders of the tri-national environmental agency created under the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) have promised to provide stakeholders a forum for discussion of ......
Peru on June 26 joined Belize and El Salvador on the list of Latin nations that have made environmental investments in return for a reduction ......
Planting trees is not always viewed as an environmental plus. Consider Brazil, where commercial tree plantations cover an estimated 12 million acres (five million hectares). Plantation ......
Brazilian Environment Minister José Carlos Carvalho took office in March following the resignation of José Sarney Filho. Carvalho, a forest engineer with a degree from ......