Argentina: toxic waste from fracking in Patagonia
19 December 2018. A major indigenous group in Argentina has filed a criminal complaint against BP subsidiary Pan American Energy for illegally dumping toxic...
Your summer BBQ – devastation for Paraguay
BBQs across Europe are fuelling one of the world’s most pressing environmental crises, the rampant destruction of the Gran Chaco in South America.
An investigation...
Chico Mendes — 25 years after his death
The Amazon activist, Chico Mendes, was murdered outside the door of his house on 22 December 1988. Jan Rocha, who met him, looks at his legacy.
Tapajos under attack 8: The rush to turn the Amazon into...
The development over the last 40 years of Mato Grosso state in Brazil’s interior as an industrial agribusiness powerhouse has, from the beginning,...
Latin America’s climate conundrum
The Americas now face the challenge of coping with the inevitable, potentially devastating,impacts of climate change.
ALMIR SURUÍ FROM BRAZIL HAS WON A UN “FOREST HERO” AWARD
Almir Narayamoga Surui, an indigenous leader from the Brazilian Amazon, has been given a prestigious UN Forest Heroes Award for his struggle to protect the forest.
The power of the first generation without hope
In May, I gave a talk at Harvard University on the Amazon and creating futures and I closed it by saying that hope, like...
The Rights of Nature Movement
A recent report, published by the Cyrus R. Vance Centre for International Justice, Earth Law Centre and International Rivers has found that the movement to grant legal rights to rivers and the natural environment is rapidly gaining momentum around the world.
Ecocide in Ecuador
The collapse of Yasuni Initiative has allowed pristine parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon to become vulnerable to oil exploration.
El Salvador: rainwater harvesting
This article by Tim Muth is reproduced from the excellent El Salvador Perspectives blog. You can read the original here. Tim can be contacted...