Colombia, like other Latin American nations, has long counted the presumption of innocence among its highest legal values, constitutionally guaranteeing it for defendants in criminal ......
With their swirling lines and spots of electric yellow, red, and blue, poison arrow frogs have long been among the most coveted items in the ......
Despite legal challenges from green groups and criticism from within his own government, Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom is defending his recent decision to extend for ......
Peruvian officials say they are making progress on mechanisms to stop illegal logging in the country’s Amazon region, but U.S. trade officials and international environmental ......
Soy traders here have agreed to continue their moratorium on the purchase of soy grown in areas of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest cleared since July ......
The governments of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay reached an unprecedented agreement this month to jointly manage—and prevent foreign control of—South America’s largest freshwater aquifer. In ......
A controversial new theory about tropical weather patterns holds that the Amazon rainforest, which plays a huge role in cooling the planet, is far more ......
In 2001, Marcela Aguiñaga Vallejo served as a ranger in Galápagos National Park. Now, she is finishing her third year as Ecuador’s environment minister, but ......
Colombia, like other Latin American nations, has long counted the presumption of innocence among its highest legal values, constitutionally guaranteeing it for defendants in criminal ......
With their swirling lines and spots of electric yellow, red, and blue, poison arrow frogs have long been among the most coveted items in the ......
Despite legal challenges from green groups and criticism from within his own government, Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom is defending his recent decision to extend for ......
Peruvian officials say they are making progress on mechanisms to stop illegal logging in the country’s Amazon region, but U.S. trade officials and international environmental ......
Soy traders here have agreed to continue their moratorium on the purchase of soy grown in areas of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest cleared since July ......
The governments of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay reached an unprecedented agreement this month to jointly manage—and prevent foreign control of—South America’s largest freshwater aquifer. In ......
A controversial new theory about tropical weather patterns holds that the Amazon rainforest, which plays a huge role in cooling the planet, is far more ......
In 2001, Marcela Aguiñaga Vallejo served as a ranger in Galápagos National Park. Now, she is finishing her third year as Ecuador’s environment minister, but ......