BRAZIL: TIME FOR SOLAR ENERGY
Decentralised electricity generation could reduce costs and avoid damaging the environment.
EL SALVADOR: MAKING THE BEST OF IT
An unusually violent hurricane ravaged their community but women are rebuilding their lives with sewing machines and eggs.
LATIN AMERICA: US$100BN DAMAGE FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
Latin America and the Caribbean face massive economic damages from global warming, report warns.
Brazil: the Carbon Credit Bonanza
Brazil: the Carbon Credit Bonanza. Celestial Green Ventures, a carbon trading company based in Ireland, has been quietly signing contracts with a series of indigenous groups in the Amazon.
Amazon: Worrying times
Scientists working on a giant research project in the Amazon basin are reaching disturbing conclusions, including the prediction that by the end of this century the Amazon basin could be receivng 40 percent less rainfall and temperatures could have inc
Climate Conversations – Why the UNFCCC needs more countries like Mexico
For Mexico, the fight against climate change is a fight for sustainability.
Argentina tries to combat a drier future
Argentina is suffering a terrible drought. Is climate change to blame?
As the climate dries, Mexico’s milk region faces arsenic threat
Climate change is destroying the dairy industry in some regions of Mexico.
Durban: Frying the Planet
Pablo Solón, former Bolivian ambassador to the UN, issued a statement just before the climate change talks got underway in Durban. Once again, he warns that the world is doing too little too late.
Amazon forest: Is it still a carbon sink?
The Amazon basin has long had the useful function of 'sinking' millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide. But, says Dr Simon Lewis in an interview with LAB, successive droughts might make it lose this important function.