When Salvadoran legislators last month made their country the world’s first to ban all metal mining, they embraced an environmental movement sparked in 2004 by ......
In March, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an international marine-protection nonprofit, made an unwelcome discovery in Mexico’s upper Gulf of California: an illegal gill net ......
The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a neck of land in the southern state of Oaxaca, is facing its worst drought in decades, sharpening fears that changing ......
In an unprecedented move that it dubbed “Operation Cold Beef,” the enforcement arm of Brazil’s Environment Ministry shuttered 15 slaughterhouses in March for buying cattle ......
Bolivian President Evo Morales last July announced what he described as the most important infrastructure project in his country’s history: the construction of two large ......
Argentina’s tortuous campaign to create a national park on its part of the Chaco, the vast subtropical lowland that also stretches into Paraguay, Bolivia and ......
When a flood from a mountain lake threatened to swamp this Andean town early one morning in April 2010, Víctor Rodríguez was the only person ......
As president of Ibama, the enforcement and licensing arm of Brazil’s Environment Ministry, Suely Araújo presides over permitting decisions on development projects. In August 2016, ......
When Salvadoran legislators last month made their country the world’s first to ban all metal mining, they embraced an environmental movement sparked in 2004 by ......
In March, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an international marine-protection nonprofit, made an unwelcome discovery in Mexico’s upper Gulf of California: an illegal gill net ......
The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a neck of land in the southern state of Oaxaca, is facing its worst drought in decades, sharpening fears that changing ......
In an unprecedented move that it dubbed “Operation Cold Beef,” the enforcement arm of Brazil’s Environment Ministry shuttered 15 slaughterhouses in March for buying cattle ......
Bolivian President Evo Morales last July announced what he described as the most important infrastructure project in his country’s history: the construction of two large ......
Argentina’s tortuous campaign to create a national park on its part of the Chaco, the vast subtropical lowland that also stretches into Paraguay, Bolivia and ......
When a flood from a mountain lake threatened to swamp this Andean town early one morning in April 2010, Víctor Rodríguez was the only person ......
As president of Ibama, the enforcement and licensing arm of Brazil’s Environment Ministry, Suely Araújo presides over permitting decisions on development projects. In August 2016, ......