Road narrows for South American river highway

February 2001

Colombia

Colombia rejects biological tack in war on coca

Opponents of a plan to use biological agents against Colombia’s 740,000 acres (300,000 hectares) of coca crops are claiming victory following a decision last month ......

Brazil

For Ibama, new energy at the top

Ibama, Brazil’s environmental enforcement agency, has a new president: Hamilton Casara, a 41-year-old agronomist who many here believe will try to jolt the institution’s traditionally ......

Chile (Free Read)

Terram report faults Chilean salmon farms

A debate is taking shape in Chile over the environmental costs of the nation’s burgeoning salmon farming industry. Chilean salmon exports have climbed dramatically. Last year, ......

U.S.–Mexico

Novel treatment project stirs border debate

Environmentalists are intensifying their criticism of a private, U.S. company’s plan to treat sewage in Mexico under a no-bid contract with the U.S. government. They complain ......

Green business

Fund picks sweet target for first investment

More and more, conservation groups are using market tools to further their environmental goals. In the latest evidence of this trend, a venture-capital fund set ......

Around the Region

Road narrows for South American river highway

The Brazilian government has decided not to take part in the upper portion of a 2,100-mile (3,400 km) dredging project to create an aquatic highway ......

Centerpiece

Regulators scramble following Jessica spill

Not long after the tanker Jessica’s Jan. 16 grounding here, Ecuadorians were remarking: “God is a Galapageño.” And for good reason: After Jessica’s hull cracked ......

Q&A

Von Humboldt’s Samper analyzes anti-coca campaign

Cristián Samper is general director of the Von Humboldt Institute, a semi-private research organization dedicated to the knowledge, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in ......

Road narrows for South American river highway

The Brazilian government has decided not to take part in the upper portion of a 2,100-mile (3,400 km) dredging project to create an aquatic highway for wide barge convoys through five countries along the Paraguay and Paraná rivers. Brazilian Transportation Minister Eliseu Padilha made the announcement last month and underscored it in a letter to Environment Minister José Sarney Filho. “…[T]his Ministry does not intend to implant a waterway on the Paraguay River [the stretch that borders Brazil]. Whoever wants to navigate its waters should adapt their vessels to it because it won’t be adapted to them.” Currently, Brazil’s Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul states use small barge convoys to float grain, minerals and other products down the Paraguay River to... [Log in to read more]

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February 2001

Colombia

Colombia rejects biological tack in war on coca

Opponents of a plan to use biological agents against Colombia’s 740,000 acres (300,000 hectares) of coca crops are claiming victory following a decision last month ......

Brazil

For Ibama, new energy at the top

Ibama, Brazil’s environmental enforcement agency, has a new president: Hamilton Casara, a 41-year-old agronomist who many here believe will try to jolt the institution’s traditionally ......

Chile (Free Read)

Terram report faults Chilean salmon farms

A debate is taking shape in Chile over the environmental costs of the nation’s burgeoning salmon farming industry. Chilean salmon exports have climbed dramatically. Last year, ......

U.S.–Mexico

Novel treatment project stirs border debate

Environmentalists are intensifying their criticism of a private, U.S. company’s plan to treat sewage in Mexico under a no-bid contract with the U.S. government. They complain ......

Green business

Fund picks sweet target for first investment

More and more, conservation groups are using market tools to further their environmental goals. In the latest evidence of this trend, a venture-capital fund set ......

Around the Region

Road narrows for South American river highway

The Brazilian government has decided not to take part in the upper portion of a 2,100-mile (3,400 km) dredging project to create an aquatic highway ......

Centerpiece

Regulators scramble following Jessica spill

Not long after the tanker Jessica’s Jan. 16 grounding here, Ecuadorians were remarking: “God is a Galapageño.” And for good reason: After Jessica’s hull cracked ......

Q&A

Von Humboldt’s Samper analyzes anti-coca campaign

Cristián Samper is general director of the Von Humboldt Institute, a semi-private research organization dedicated to the knowledge, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in ......