Fish stocks grow dramatically in Mexican reserve

September 2011

Region

Region not hopeful about Durban climate meeting

For much of the last decade, Latin America has eagerly embraced the promise of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The United Nations agreement, under which developed ......

Mexico

Fish stocks grow dramatically in Mexican reserve

A new study of Cabo Pulmo National Park in the Gulf of California shows the number and size of fish have increased dramatically in the ......

Argentina

China to finance Patagonian farming push

A Chinese food conglomerate plans to lend US$1.5 billion for the development of farming operations on 330,000 hectares (815,000 acres) in Argentine Patagonia on condition ......

Brazil

Agrochemical repackaging probed in Brazil

Food-safety authorities have launched regulatory action against two agrochemical makers here, Germany-based BASF and Brazil’s Servatis Agro & Fine Chemicals, drawing a rebuke from four ......

Nicaragua (Free Read)

Nicaragua wants to restart cotton industry

In the 1960s and 70s, Nicaragua’s economic motor—cotton—also caused some of its most vexing environmental problems. Rivers and soils were heavily polluted with agrochemicals, and ......

Around the Region

Oil find in Darién worries Panama’s green groups

To the dismay of environmentalists, Panama has discovered an estimated 900 million barrels in oil reserves in Darién Province near its border with Colombia and ......

Centerpiece

Chilean isle serves as lab for grad students

Long ago, as the Yaghán indigenous people tell it, a devastating drought struck the land at the bottom of the world, and birds began to ......

Q&A

Rio 92 organizer rues lack of environmental progress

In June 2012 Brazil will host the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Earth Summit 2012. The session is known as Rio+20 since it will ......

Fish stocks grow dramatically in Mexican reserve

Mexico

A new study of Cabo Pulmo National Park in the Gulf of California shows the number and size of fish have increased dramatically in the past 10 years, offering powerful evidence that a marine area can recover from overfishing when a community works to protect it. The research, led by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, found that the improvement was the greatest measured in any marine reserve worldwide. Published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE journal, the study determined that biomass concentrations at Cabo Pulmo were over five times greater per hectare than the average in non-protected areas of the Gulf of California. “This thing can recover in a short time,” says Exequiel... [Log in to read more]

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September 2011

Region

Region not hopeful about Durban climate meeting

For much of the last decade, Latin America has eagerly embraced the promise of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The United Nations agreement, under which developed ......

Mexico

Fish stocks grow dramatically in Mexican reserve

A new study of Cabo Pulmo National Park in the Gulf of California shows the number and size of fish have increased dramatically in the ......

Argentina

China to finance Patagonian farming push

A Chinese food conglomerate plans to lend US$1.5 billion for the development of farming operations on 330,000 hectares (815,000 acres) in Argentine Patagonia on condition ......

Brazil

Agrochemical repackaging probed in Brazil

Food-safety authorities have launched regulatory action against two agrochemical makers here, Germany-based BASF and Brazil’s Servatis Agro & Fine Chemicals, drawing a rebuke from four ......

Nicaragua (Free Read)

Nicaragua wants to restart cotton industry

In the 1960s and 70s, Nicaragua’s economic motor—cotton—also caused some of its most vexing environmental problems. Rivers and soils were heavily polluted with agrochemicals, and ......

Around the Region

Oil find in Darién worries Panama’s green groups

To the dismay of environmentalists, Panama has discovered an estimated 900 million barrels in oil reserves in Darién Province near its border with Colombia and ......

Centerpiece

Chilean isle serves as lab for grad students

Long ago, as the Yaghán indigenous people tell it, a devastating drought struck the land at the bottom of the world, and birds began to ......

Q&A

Rio 92 organizer rues lack of environmental progress

In June 2012 Brazil will host the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Earth Summit 2012. The session is known as Rio+20 since it will ......