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Environment

Brazil: anger over Amazon dams

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Social movements are protesting over plans to push ahead with hydroelectric dams along the Tapajós river. Bruna Rocha reports for LAB.

The Platform launches reports on climate change policies in 10 Latin...

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A comprehensive report on actions taken by Latin American countries to fight climate change.

Can Lula reinvent himself as an environmentalist?

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Over the last few months President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been riding the crest of a wave: the Brazilian economy is coming through the global economic crisis relatively unscathed; under his leadership the country has gained a much more powerful

Antarctic — melting increases threefold

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LONDON, 13 December, 2014 −The Antarctic ice shelf is under threat from a silent, invisible agency – and the rate of melting of glaciers...

Brazil: Water crisis marks failure of for-profit utilities

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São Paulo's ongoing water crisis highlights the role of water company Sabesp and the failure of the 'public-private' partnership model.

Bitter fruit: pineapples in Costa Rica

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Pineapples in Costa Rica: Over the last decade intensive agriculture has led to a big surge in pineapple production in Costa Rica but at horrific cost to workers, peasant families and biodiversity. Felicity Lawrence takes an in-depth l

Chevron Oil: Corporate Rights or Human Rights?

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The oil giant is using SLAPP litigation to stifle human rights advocates and, in Ecuador, to stall compensation claims for environmental damage caused by its operations in the Amazon.

Faces of Latin America 4th Edition

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The indispensable introduction to Latin America for all serious students, readers and travellers.

BRAZIL: A FOREST CODE FOR AGRIBUSINESS?

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The complexity and contradictions of Brazil’s new Forest Code will make it hard to enforce and easy to evade, says the Instituto Socioambiental.

Brazil — recolonising a continent

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So what are prospects for the left in the face of a concerted US-backed right-wing offensive? Left-wing activists in Brazil give us their views.

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