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Like fine wines, genetic resources from the world’s most biologically diverse countries may soon get their own certificates of origin. Experts meeting in Lima, Peru, last ......
In “Axolotl,” Argentine writer Julio Cortázar portrays the creature that inspired the short story’s title as an ageless being from a mysterious universe. “The axolotls ......
Mexican biologist Astrid Frisch Jordan has dedicated her career to the research and preservation of monarch butterflies, sea turtles, dolphins and whales. Since coming to ......
As Peru prepares to auction 18 new Amazon hydrocarbon concessions, environmental and indigenous groups are protesting that some blocks overlap protected lands and rainforest inhabited ......
Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva has been named a recipient of the 2007 Champions of the Earth award, a United Nations prize to be given ......
Just nine weeks into his term, Mexican President Felipe Calderón this month faced his first major environmental test: whether to approve mangrove-protection measures strongly opposed ......
Like snow, it swirls in the air, drifts to the ground and carpets grasslands, rivers and beaches on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. For many inhabitants of ......
The warm springs of Termas de Río Hondo, a city of 50,000 in Argentina’s northern province of Santiago del Estero, have soothed aching visitors for ......
Like fine wines, genetic resources from the world’s most biologically diverse countries may soon get their own certificates of origin. Experts meeting in Lima, Peru, last ......
In “Axolotl,” Argentine writer Julio Cortázar portrays the creature that inspired the short story’s title as an ageless being from a mysterious universe. “The axolotls ......
Mexican biologist Astrid Frisch Jordan has dedicated her career to the research and preservation of monarch butterflies, sea turtles, dolphins and whales. Since coming to ......