Three years ago an Ecuadorian court’s US$19 billion judgment against Chevron for causing contamination in the Amazon region won wild applause from many environmental groups. The ......
When the Brazilian government in July 2007 approved construction of two large dams on the Madeira River near the Bolivian border, environmentalists, indigenous groups, and ......
In a creative move to spotlight the lack of a glacier-protection law in Chile, Greenpeace Chile this month declared that without such legislation in place ......
Brazil’s plans to continue banking heavily on hydropower, which provides 75% of the country’s electricity, are raising questions. That’s partly because the plans call for ......
Signs that the Peruvian government is considering easing requirements for environmental-impact studies for seismic testing in oil and gas fields are drawing criticism from environmentalists ......
In a pilot project aimed at testing the use of electric taxis and buses, the city of Montevideo, Uruguay, has found that fuel costs for ......
In 1957, an American geologist for Shell named Kenneth Lee was on a survey flight over the department of Beni in the Bolivian Amazon when ......
While head of the Latin America department of the Energy Intelligence consulting firm in the 2000s, Patricia Vásquez analyzed the economics and politics of oil ......
Three years ago an Ecuadorian court’s US$19 billion judgment against Chevron for causing contamination in the Amazon region won wild applause from many environmental groups. The ......
When the Brazilian government in July 2007 approved construction of two large dams on the Madeira River near the Bolivian border, environmentalists, indigenous groups, and ......
In a creative move to spotlight the lack of a glacier-protection law in Chile, Greenpeace Chile this month declared that without such legislation in place ......
Brazil’s plans to continue banking heavily on hydropower, which provides 75% of the country’s electricity, are raising questions. That’s partly because the plans call for ......
Signs that the Peruvian government is considering easing requirements for environmental-impact studies for seismic testing in oil and gas fields are drawing criticism from environmentalists ......
In a pilot project aimed at testing the use of electric taxis and buses, the city of Montevideo, Uruguay, has found that fuel costs for ......
In 1957, an American geologist for Shell named Kenneth Lee was on a survey flight over the department of Beni in the Bolivian Amazon when ......
While head of the Latin America department of the Energy Intelligence consulting firm in the 2000s, Patricia Vásquez analyzed the economics and politics of oil ......