For Latin America, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that got underway this month in Glasgow, Scotland, presents an opportunity to secure financing for climate ......
Sheep ranching has a long tradition in Argentina—especially in Patagonia, where poor soils, scant rain, relentless winds and low temperatures put a damper on other ......
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has sent Congress legislation that would strengthen the state’s role in the electricity sector in ways experts say will ......
In 1987, the 200 Ava Guaraní people making up Paraguay’s Campo Agua’e indigenous community won formal government recognition of their rights to 900 hectares (2,224 ......
For the first time, an Uruguayan labor court has ruled in favor of a worker who complained of health problems caused by workplace exposure to ......
Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon fear a possible expansion of the oil industry’s footprint in the rainforest region, where four decades of drilling have ......
Concerns about woodland protection in Brazil often focus on the illegal deforestation of lands earmarked for conservation. And small wonder: For decades, miners, loggers and ......
Ezio Costa is executive director of FIMA, a nonprofit that litigates in the Chilean courts to promote environmental protection. Since its founding in 1998, FIMA ......
