Weeks after Amazonian wildfires galvanized world attention and young climate strikers marched through cities around the globe, Catholic bishops from the Amazon will meet at ......
When Hurricane Dorian slammed the Bahamas on Sept. 1 with 185–mph winds, it produced all-too-familiar scenes of devastation: trees stripped bare of leaves; buildings shorn ......
Attempting to deliver on promises to curb widespread deforestation, Panama on Sept. 9 imposed a year-long moratorium on new logging permits. Half of the country’s forestland ......
Deforestation and fires in the Brazilian Amazon, caused to a large degree by ranchers clearing land for pasture, are creating a potentially explosive public-relations problem ......
Aiming to reduce environmental-health risks from large-scale farming, Uruguay’s government is testing a pioneering system that provides real-time satellite monitoring and guidance to keep agrochemical ......
As world attention has focused on record fires and ongoing deforestation in Brazil, Bolivia has been suffering through devastating conflagrations of its own. The Bolivian fires ......
Almost 25 years ago, the fishermen of Cabo Pulmo, a small village on the Gulf of California, packed up their nets and asked the Mexican ......
Raoni Metuktire, 89, chief of the Kayapó indigenous people in Brazil, has been a leading advocate for Amazon rainforest conservation since the late 1980s, when ......
