The indigenous Yanomami people, whose vast territory straddles the border of Brazil and Venezuela, have launched a campaign to expel 20,000 illegal Amazon gold miners ......
For decades, Salvadorans have grappled with poor availability and quality of drinking water, yet the country has not enacted new water-resource legislation since 1970. That ......
A project in one of Nicaragua’s driest regions is looking to help farmers harvest water for crops, one of the latest efforts to bring relief ......
Environmental groups and several indigenous organizations have protested the firing on June 5, World Environment Day, of Luis Alberto Gonzales-Zúñiga, who had headed Peru’s National ......
In the 1990s, Chile’s fishing industry was riding high, hauling in up to seven million tons of fish a year. Since then, though, overfishing and ......
Guatemala’s Lake Amatitlán historically has suffered from inflows of trash discarded near its shores and in the watershed of the Villalobos River, which empties into ......
If there is one lesson the coronavirus pandemic ought to hold for the countries that control the Amazon rainforest, it is the public-health value of ......
Carlos Nobre, a prominent Brazilian expert on climate-change impacts in the Amazon region, is a distinguished scientist at the University of São Paulo’s Institute of ......
