ANDEAN GLACIERS “GOING FAST”
Among the most sensitive indicators of global climate change, these glaciers have shrunk by at least 30% over the last 30 years. Paul Brown, from Climate News Network, reports.
Water for Life
On 22 March, World Water Day, CONIC, Christian Aid and CREAS launched an online training course for faith communities in Brazil: 'Water for Life....
Voices in New York – LAB Newsletter April 2019
26 April 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
The shocking suicide of former President Alan García, as police arrived to arrest, may have been planned in...
Residents denounce crime against the environment
Members of the collective Ocupe e Abrace are opposing a new 22 storey block of flats, to be built next to Praça Homero Silva...
Former ministers blast Bolsonaro’s environmental assaults
A new manifesto by eight of Brazil’s past environment ministers has accused the rightist Bolsonaro administration of “a series of unprecedented actions...
Tekoha Sauce: community fights to recover land at Itaipú
Written for LAB by William Costa
'We were very happy when we lived on the banks of the Paraná River. We had our houses, we...
N.E.Brazil: church mission denounces water inequality
Brazil is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world
and contains 20% of the Earth´s water springs – but all this is threatened...
Lithium: draining the desert
Peine, Chile and Susques, Argentina – Within minutes of driving out of
tourist hotspot San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile you are deep in...
Copper and conflict in Sonora, Mexico
Conversing with Goliath is a research project carried out by
FLACSO-Mexico and De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, sponsored by the
British Academy (2017-2020). The project aims...
Chile’s water crisis
Chilean
politics are marked by several long-running and highly divisive controversies,
many deriving from the most consistently neoliberal economic policies and
property arrangements in the world. One
of...