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October 2016

El Salvador

ICSID decision buoys El Salvador in mining dispute

The government of El Salvador and mining opponents won an important victory this month when an arbitration panel threw out an Australian-Canadian mining company’s demand ......

Brazil

Food giants’ forest-protection policies questioned

Many multinationals in recent years have pledged to keep their products deforestation-free, aiming in part to attract consumers concerned about the felling of tropical forests. ......

Argentina—Chile

Cross-border mine-waste dumping irks Argentina

The dumping high in the Andes of some 55 million tons of mining waste is fueling a bilateral dispute, with Argentina asserting that the material, ......

Peru

Oil pollution and mine triggering protests in Peru

Just three months after taking office, Peru’s new government is grappling with protests over a mine in the southern Andean highlands and oil pollution in ......

Costa Rica

Costa Rica takes step back on shark protection

For over a year, Costa Rica has signaled it would soften its once-stalwart international support for stronger world shark-conservation regulations. The pullback became a reality ......

Around the Region

Brazilian deforestation data show land-clearing increase

Brazil’s Amazon region lost 24% more rainforest in the year ending July 31, 2015 than was cleared in the preceding 12 months, according to figures ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

As violence eases, tourism seen in Colombia as key to conservation

Poor, arid and teeming for decades with guerrilla fighters, the Colombian department of La Guajira hasn’t been a top vacation spot. Few understand why better ......

Q&A

‘Blue Economy’ author urges region to find change on periphery

Gunter Pauli, a Belgian economist with an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and a PhD from the University of Turin, spent the early 1990s ......

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