Years of legislative combat over a rewrite of Brazil’s central forest-protection law have ended in victory for the country’s powerful farming and ranching lobby, which ......
For years, Argentine scientific and green-advocacy groups, alarmed by habitat destruction here, have called on the government to step up wildlife-conservation efforts. But with the ......
Tighter emissions standards, better information management, effective sanctions for violation of environmental norms and an early-action system for heading off environmental conflicts are part of ......
Brazil’s oil industry regulator, the National Oil Agency (ANP), has gained ground in its effort to ensure that legal fallout from Chevron’s 3,700-barrel offshore oil ......
Free-trade agreements that the European Union (EU) signed recently with eight Latin American countries are expected to stimulate economic growth, but green advocates warn they’ll ......
Argentina and Uruguay last month traded accusations over environmental monitoring of a massive Uruguayan pulp mill that started up in 2007 on the banks of ......
Almir Suruí, chief of Brazil’s indigenous Suruí tribe, is not shy about engaging with outsiders to ensure his people’s survival. Promoting his tribe’s efforts to ......
A central aim of Joseluis Samaniego, director of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and ......
Years of legislative combat over a rewrite of Brazil’s central forest-protection law have ended in victory for the country’s powerful farming and ranching lobby, which ......
For years, Argentine scientific and green-advocacy groups, alarmed by habitat destruction here, have called on the government to step up wildlife-conservation efforts. But with the ......
Tighter emissions standards, better information management, effective sanctions for violation of environmental norms and an early-action system for heading off environmental conflicts are part of ......
Brazil’s oil industry regulator, the National Oil Agency (ANP), has gained ground in its effort to ensure that legal fallout from Chevron’s 3,700-barrel offshore oil ......
Free-trade agreements that the European Union (EU) signed recently with eight Latin American countries are expected to stimulate economic growth, but green advocates warn they’ll ......
Argentina and Uruguay last month traded accusations over environmental monitoring of a massive Uruguayan pulp mill that started up in 2007 on the banks of ......
Almir Suruí, chief of Brazil’s indigenous Suruí tribe, is not shy about engaging with outsiders to ensure his people’s survival. Promoting his tribe’s efforts to ......
A central aim of Joseluis Samaniego, director of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and ......