As power-generation projects have multiplied in northern Mexico, they’ve raised a touchy question: Will the new plants be equipped with cutting-edge pollution controls? Until recently, the ......
In the three decades it took for this coastal outpost to earn a reputation as one of the world’s prime surfing destinations, Brazil performed a ......
First came the U.S. State Department’s announcement last month that Colombia’s coca production fell 15% in 2002, the first decline in a decade for a ......
Chile’s National Environmental Commission (Conama) has granted Noranda, the Toronto-based metals and mining company, until November to answer questions about its plans to build one ......
In theory, commercial cultivation of genetically modified crops is prohibited in Brazil pending litigation of the matter in the country’s courts. But in practice, transgenics ......
The Argentine mountain resort community of Esquel observed its 97th anniversary last month, but the celebrations turned into a showdown over plans for an open-pit ......
The coastal desert of Colombia’s La Guajira state is a world away from Kyoto, the temperate Japanese city where representatives of 159 countries in 1997 ......
Thomas Black-Arbeláez is executive director of the Andean Center for the Economy in the Environment, a think tank in Bogotá, Colombia. The privately funded center ......
As power-generation projects have multiplied in northern Mexico, they’ve raised a touchy question: Will the new plants be equipped with cutting-edge pollution controls? Until recently, the ......
In the three decades it took for this coastal outpost to earn a reputation as one of the world’s prime surfing destinations, Brazil performed a ......
First came the U.S. State Department’s announcement last month that Colombia’s coca production fell 15% in 2002, the first decline in a decade for a ......
Chile’s National Environmental Commission (Conama) has granted Noranda, the Toronto-based metals and mining company, until November to answer questions about its plans to build one ......
In theory, commercial cultivation of genetically modified crops is prohibited in Brazil pending litigation of the matter in the country’s courts. But in practice, transgenics ......
The Argentine mountain resort community of Esquel observed its 97th anniversary last month, but the celebrations turned into a showdown over plans for an open-pit ......
The coastal desert of Colombia’s La Guajira state is a world away from Kyoto, the temperate Japanese city where representatives of 159 countries in 1997 ......
Thomas Black-Arbeláez is executive director of the Andean Center for the Economy in the Environment, a think tank in Bogotá, Colombia. The privately funded center ......