When Hurricane Tomas hit the Caribbean last October, its 70 mile-per-hour winds tearing off roofs, unleashing landslides and killing 69 people, the beleaguered governments of ......
Every fall, the buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis) departs the high-arctic tundra of Alaska and northern Canada for its South American wintering grounds. The journey is perilous. ......
Argentina appears determined to reassert itself as a Latin American leader in nuclear power, and—on paper, at least—this year it plans to take major steps ......
The litany is as dismal as it is unsurprising. Nearly three-fourths of wastewater from urban homes in Peru pours untreated into rivers, streams and the ......
A group of scientists is preparing to warn Chile’s government that it must move faster to address threats posed by melting glaciers, particularly the deluges ......
Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state is showing greater environmental-enforcement clout, a change that the owners of a new US$7 billion steel mill in the state—Germany’s ......
The angry clash between Costa Rica and Nicaragua over a dredging project on the eastern end of the two countries’ border has raised broader questions ......
Anna Cederstav is co-executive director and scientist of the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), a nonprofit group in Oakland, California. Known by its Spanish ......
When Hurricane Tomas hit the Caribbean last October, its 70 mile-per-hour winds tearing off roofs, unleashing landslides and killing 69 people, the beleaguered governments of ......
Every fall, the buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis) departs the high-arctic tundra of Alaska and northern Canada for its South American wintering grounds. The journey is perilous. ......
Argentina appears determined to reassert itself as a Latin American leader in nuclear power, and—on paper, at least—this year it plans to take major steps ......
The litany is as dismal as it is unsurprising. Nearly three-fourths of wastewater from urban homes in Peru pours untreated into rivers, streams and the ......
A group of scientists is preparing to warn Chile’s government that it must move faster to address threats posed by melting glaciers, particularly the deluges ......
Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state is showing greater environmental-enforcement clout, a change that the owners of a new US$7 billion steel mill in the state—Germany’s ......
The angry clash between Costa Rica and Nicaragua over a dredging project on the eastern end of the two countries’ border has raised broader questions ......
Anna Cederstav is co-executive director and scientist of the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), a nonprofit group in Oakland, California. Known by its Spanish ......