Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate for Aug. 2003 through July 2004 ran an estimated 6% higher than during the previous 12-month period, officials here say, a ......
Eight years ago, when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) paid US$2 million for two ships to count blue whales off Chile’s coast, the observers spotted ......
Thwarted in its efforts to reduce coca cultivation, Colombia’s government early this month was preparing to fumigate coca crops in its national parks for the ......
In a two-year study of Chile’s environmental performance, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has called for a policy overhaul, a stronger fiscal ......
Argentina appears poised to enact legislation aimed at promoting production of biofuels, an initiative supporters believe will reduce the country’s dependence on petroleum, boost renewable ......
A new study conducted by the Brazilian government identifies the burning of forests and the lack of sewage-collection systems as Brazil’s two biggest environmental problems. The ......
When Vilma Zegarra was eight years old, she accompanied her parents on long treks into the Amazonian rainforest here to gather Brazil nuts. “The men ......
Germán Andrade is a Colombian member of the Protected Areas Commission of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the international environmental organization headquartered in Gland, Switzerland. ......
Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate for Aug. 2003 through July 2004 ran an estimated 6% higher than during the previous 12-month period, officials here say, a ......
Eight years ago, when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) paid US$2 million for two ships to count blue whales off Chile’s coast, the observers spotted ......
Thwarted in its efforts to reduce coca cultivation, Colombia’s government early this month was preparing to fumigate coca crops in its national parks for the ......
In a two-year study of Chile’s environmental performance, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has called for a policy overhaul, a stronger fiscal ......
Argentina appears poised to enact legislation aimed at promoting production of biofuels, an initiative supporters believe will reduce the country’s dependence on petroleum, boost renewable ......
A new study conducted by the Brazilian government identifies the burning of forests and the lack of sewage-collection systems as Brazil’s two biggest environmental problems. The ......
When Vilma Zegarra was eight years old, she accompanied her parents on long treks into the Amazonian rainforest here to gather Brazil nuts. “The men ......
Germán Andrade is a Colombian member of the Protected Areas Commission of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the international environmental organization headquartered in Gland, Switzerland. ......