The network protecting fishers and life in Guanabara Bay
Founded in response to a perilous oil spill in Rio's Guanabara Bay, Ahomar fishing network has gone on to win international awards for its...
Uruguay bets on forestry despite pollution and civil unrest
The country aims to increase areas under forest cultivation amid persistent doubts about their value, and water and biodiversity concerns. This piece was originally...
As Panama Canal dam project looms, communities face up to floods
Authorities’ plans for a new reservoir to guarantee water for the canal will submerge villages along the Indio River, where residents voice anger over...
Victims of Peru’s worst ever oil spill have been left to...
A local fishing community does not feel adequately compensated and Repsol must do more to repair the damage, write researchers. This piece by Rocío...
Mexico: the indomitable women of the lagoon
The community of San Juan Bautista struggles against a gas pipeline and in defence of their lagoon, their land, and their existence as an Indigenous people. This is the story of the women embodying their resistance.
‘Our water will become poison’
Seven months ago, the residents of Santa María Chi, a precinct of the Yucatán city of Mérida in southern Mexico with a small population...
‘Fake environmentalist’ campaign against Guapinol defenders
A Twitter campaign smearing the reputation of environmental activists in Honduras is a coordinated effort to protect mining interests.
Indigenous Comcaac serve up an oceanic grain to preserve seagrass meadows
The Indigenous Comcaac community of northwestern Mexico is working to preserve eelgrass and promote the renaissance of the grain they obtain from it.
Crimes against Guapinol defenders reflect neglect from Honduran government
'The Government is responsible for these two murders, and Xiomara Castro must provide an explanation,’ declared ERIC-SJ researcher Joaquín Mejía Rivera, in the wake of the killing of two environmental defenders in Guapinol.
El Salvador: water defenders arrested
Five water defenders from Santa Marta, Cabañas, El Salvador have been arrested in connection with the 1989 murder of a woman in their community. However, their active membership of an organisation opposed to mining and strong signs that the government wants to subvert the country's mining ban suggest another motive for their persecution
