Indian activists shut down Peruvian-Amazon oil sites

November 2006

Argentina

Argentine biodiesel might fuel monoculture, too

News about biofuels has been appearing on Argentina’s business pages with growing frequency these days, as investment plans for biodiesel and, to a lesser extent, ......

Conservation

Region is focus in battle to halt frog extinctions

Panamanian biologist Edgardo Griffith had no doubt the lethal chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) would eventually strike the cloud forests of the extinct volcano known as ......

Brazil

Brazil floating developing-world forest plan

As Brazil prepared this month to unveil a proposal for conserving developing-world forests, green advocates wasted no time jousting over the outlines of the plan. Brazil’s ......

Climate change (Free Read)

This year’s ozone hole is a record breaker

The so-called ozone hole over Antarctica and the southern regions of Chilean and Argentine Patagonia set new records this year for both area and depth, ......

Mexico

Oil-rich Mexico to boost renewable energy

A bill pending in the Mexican Senate aims to boost alternative energy in this fossil-fuel-rich country by creating a renewables portfolio standard and other tools. Until ......

Around the Region

Indian activists shut down Peruvian-Amazon oil sites

Accusing the government of ignoring their health and environmental concerns, Achuar indigenous communities in the Corrientes River Valley last month blocked access routes and took ......

Centerpiece

Calls mount for cleanup of Lake Titicaca

Watching the interplay of sunlight and thunderheads over the vast blueness of Lake Titicaca, it is easy to understand why the Inca considered this the ......

Q&A

Expert says answers still elusive in amphibian crisis

José Vicente Rueda heads the Endangered Species Program at Conservation International (CI) in Colombia and is a leading amphibian researcher in Latin America. After graduating ......

Indian activists shut down Peruvian-Amazon oil sites

Accusing the government of ignoring their health and environmental concerns, Achuar indigenous communities in the Corrientes River Valley last month blocked access routes and took over oil wells in the Peruvian Amazon, forcing the PlusPetrol Norte oil company to halt operations. The 13-day protest cost the company about US$15 million in lost production, according to Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines. Achuar affiliated with the Federation of Native Communities of the Corrientes River (Feconaco) lifted the blockade in Blocks 1AB and 8 on Oct. 22, after signing an agreement with the company and the national and regional governments on environmental and health issues. Among the Achuar’s key objectives was to get PlusPetrol to stop contaminating local waterways with production water, the saline, heavy... [Log in to read more]

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November 2006

Argentina

Argentine biodiesel might fuel monoculture, too

News about biofuels has been appearing on Argentina’s business pages with growing frequency these days, as investment plans for biodiesel and, to a lesser extent, ......

Conservation

Region is focus in battle to halt frog extinctions

Panamanian biologist Edgardo Griffith had no doubt the lethal chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) would eventually strike the cloud forests of the extinct volcano known as ......

Brazil

Brazil floating developing-world forest plan

As Brazil prepared this month to unveil a proposal for conserving developing-world forests, green advocates wasted no time jousting over the outlines of the plan. Brazil’s ......

Climate change (Free Read)

This year’s ozone hole is a record breaker

The so-called ozone hole over Antarctica and the southern regions of Chilean and Argentine Patagonia set new records this year for both area and depth, ......

Mexico

Oil-rich Mexico to boost renewable energy

A bill pending in the Mexican Senate aims to boost alternative energy in this fossil-fuel-rich country by creating a renewables portfolio standard and other tools. Until ......

Around the Region

Indian activists shut down Peruvian-Amazon oil sites

Accusing the government of ignoring their health and environmental concerns, Achuar indigenous communities in the Corrientes River Valley last month blocked access routes and took ......

Centerpiece

Calls mount for cleanup of Lake Titicaca

Watching the interplay of sunlight and thunderheads over the vast blueness of Lake Titicaca, it is easy to understand why the Inca considered this the ......

Q&A

Expert says answers still elusive in amphibian crisis

José Vicente Rueda heads the Endangered Species Program at Conservation International (CI) in Colombia and is a leading amphibian researcher in Latin America. After graduating ......