Ecuador’s political crisis is compromising key government functions, not the least of which is environmental protection of two high-profile resources—the Galápagos Islands and the country’s ......
The towering chimneys of the American Smelting and Refining Company (Asarco) in El Paso, long a landmark on this stretch of the U.S.-Mexican border, haven’t ......
Residents living near Argentina’s Ezeiza Atomic Center (CAE) are charging that their underground water supplies have been contaminated by the nuclear research and fuel-production facility. A ......
Green activists complain Venezuela’s protected areas are anything but. They point to national parks damaged by illegal logging and slash-and-burn agriculture and—most recently—to government plans ......
With Brazil’s new law on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) now enacted, regulators here are wasting no time approving pending requests by companies interested in selling ......
An Argentine court has ordered the suspension of a project in Mendoza province to drill for oil at Llancanelo Lagoon, an internationally recognized wetland. In a ......
Pedro Iziodorio says the rains have gotten scarcer with each passing year in the semi-arid outback of northeast Brazil known as the Sertão. Iziodorio, 46, admits ......
Heitor Matallo is coordinator of the Latin America and Caribbean Unit of the Secretariat of the 1994 UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Matallo, a ......
Ecuador’s political crisis is compromising key government functions, not the least of which is environmental protection of two high-profile resources—the Galápagos Islands and the country’s ......
The towering chimneys of the American Smelting and Refining Company (Asarco) in El Paso, long a landmark on this stretch of the U.S.-Mexican border, haven’t ......
Residents living near Argentina’s Ezeiza Atomic Center (CAE) are charging that their underground water supplies have been contaminated by the nuclear research and fuel-production facility. A ......
Green activists complain Venezuela’s protected areas are anything but. They point to national parks damaged by illegal logging and slash-and-burn agriculture and—most recently—to government plans ......
With Brazil’s new law on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) now enacted, regulators here are wasting no time approving pending requests by companies interested in selling ......
An Argentine court has ordered the suspension of a project in Mendoza province to drill for oil at Llancanelo Lagoon, an internationally recognized wetland. In a ......
Pedro Iziodorio says the rains have gotten scarcer with each passing year in the semi-arid outback of northeast Brazil known as the Sertão. Iziodorio, 46, admits ......
Heitor Matallo is coordinator of the Latin America and Caribbean Unit of the Secretariat of the 1994 UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Matallo, a ......