It seems ironic that Venezuela, the world’s biggest oil producer outside the Persian Gulf, should be buffeted by massive electrical blackouts. But with 80% of ......
After decades of chaos and neglect, Peru’s government is finally trying to rein in the gold rush that is driving deforestation in the country’s southeastern ......
The most painful losses from last month’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake centered off the Chilean coast—one of the five biggest quakes in recorded history—were the 700 people ......
Bolivia isn’t the only place where electric- and hybrid-car makers are looking to obtain lithium for use in the manufacture of next-generation batteries. Argentina and ......
Latin American and Caribbean nations have advanced in providing clean water and sanitation to their citizens, but their policies continue to fuel deforestation, biodiversity loss, ......
Mexican commercial farmers have joined a government campaign to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2012. The Mexican government plans to spend US$60.5 million over the ......
In 2007, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sent Congress a national solid-waste management bill in an attempt to break a 16-year legislative logjam ......
Yolanda Kakabadse became president in January of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the world’s largest independent conservation organization. A former environment minister of ......
It seems ironic that Venezuela, the world’s biggest oil producer outside the Persian Gulf, should be buffeted by massive electrical blackouts. But with 80% of ......
After decades of chaos and neglect, Peru’s government is finally trying to rein in the gold rush that is driving deforestation in the country’s southeastern ......
The most painful losses from last month’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake centered off the Chilean coast—one of the five biggest quakes in recorded history—were the 700 people ......
Bolivia isn’t the only place where electric- and hybrid-car makers are looking to obtain lithium for use in the manufacture of next-generation batteries. Argentina and ......
Latin American and Caribbean nations have advanced in providing clean water and sanitation to their citizens, but their policies continue to fuel deforestation, biodiversity loss, ......
Mexican commercial farmers have joined a government campaign to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2012. The Mexican government plans to spend US$60.5 million over the ......
In 2007, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sent Congress a national solid-waste management bill in an attempt to break a 16-year legislative logjam ......
Yolanda Kakabadse became president in January of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the world’s largest independent conservation organization. A former environment minister of ......