Region’s scientists spotlight plight of whale shark

December 2018

Peru (Free Read)

Interfaith initiative promoting rainforest protection

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Trinidad & Tobago

Region’s scientists spotlight plight of whale shark

Dení Ramírez was born and raised in Mexico City, but she and other members of her family were avid scuba divers who often spent vacations ......

Mexico

AMLO’s first steps rapped as anti-environmental

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Brazil

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U.S.–Mexico

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Mexico and the United States sorely need to engage in “water diplomacy” over transborder groundwater sources, says Irasema Coronado, former head of the trilateral environmental ......

Around the Region

Green advocates in Brazil pan pick for environment ministry

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It’s no secret that relentless resource consumption by humans has savaged world wildlife populations. Overfishing, untrammeled agricultural expansion, poorly planned urbanization, ecologically destructive mining and ......

Q&A

GreenFaith leader discusses new interfaith rainforest initiative

The Rev. Fletcher Harper, an Episcopalian priest, is director of GreenFaith, an international, interreligious group formed to address environmental issues from a faith perspective. GreenFaith ......

Region’s scientists spotlight plight of whale shark

Trinidad & Tobago

Researchers say whale shark’s tourism appeal might be key to its conservation. (Photo by Shutterstock)

Dení Ramírez was born and raised in Mexico City, but she and other members of her family were avid scuba divers who often spent vacations exploring the Caribbean. In 1998, when she was 20 years old, she moved to La Paz, capital of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur to study marine biology at the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur. There, she met and fell in love at first sight with the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), the world’s largest extant fish. She asked her professors for information on the shark, which is found in tropical waters around the world, but discovered there was a dearth of research on the enormous, filter-feeding fish, which can grow to over 12 meters (39 feet length) and live 60 to 100 years. Since then, Ramírez has become one of Latin America’s foremost whale-shark experts. As such, she has borne witness... [Log in to read more]

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December 2018

Peru (Free Read)

Interfaith initiative promoting rainforest protection

Saying they bring a “moral, ethical and spiritual dimension” to the defense of tropical forests, religious leaders from many faiths are joining with indigenous people ......

Trinidad & Tobago

Region’s scientists spotlight plight of whale shark

Dení Ramírez was born and raised in Mexico City, but she and other members of her family were avid scuba divers who often spent vacations ......

Mexico

AMLO’s first steps rapped as anti-environmental

If Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s first moves in office are an indication, climate and ecosystems protection must lie a long way from the ......

Brazil

Rights panel presses Brazil on big dam’s impacts

Human rights and environmental advocates hope that a visit to the eastern Amazon last month by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will prompt ......

U.S.–Mexico

Experts see need for U.S.-Mexico aquifer accords

Mexico and the United States sorely need to engage in “water diplomacy” over transborder groundwater sources, says Irasema Coronado, former head of the trilateral environmental ......

Around the Region

Green advocates in Brazil pan pick for environment ministry

If one accepts that Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s governing agenda runs counter to environmental protection, then his choice for Environment Minister, Ricardo Salles, would seem ......

Centerpiece

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Q&A

GreenFaith leader discusses new interfaith rainforest initiative

The Rev. Fletcher Harper, an Episcopalian priest, is director of GreenFaith, an international, interreligious group formed to address environmental issues from a faith perspective. GreenFaith ......