Protesters gathered Wednesday simultaneously in Washington D.C. and Bogota, Colombia outside the International Finance...
mining
The World Bank invests in corporations that extort Colombian water supplies of Colombians for millions.
Lure of mining for precious metals in South America and Europe is creating new carbon emissions not controlled by international agreement.
- By Paul Brown in Trun, Bulgaria
The collapse of the Soviet Union left Bulgaria achieving...
The Colombian Constitutional Court recently banned oil, gas, and mining activities in certain areas of high altitude ecosystems known as paramos. This decision highlights how judicial activism serves as the pivot of the regulatory framework for the mining industry in Colombia....
Glaciers made an unusual appearance on a primetime American television network last month: the television series Madam Secretary aired an episode...
Glaciers made an unusual appearance on a primetime American television network last month: the television series Madam Secretary aired an episode...
Even as international climate change talks rise in prominence and people become aware of the negative impacts of carbon-rich energy sources, one must remember that global society is far from becoming independent from fossil fuels. Indeed, this is readily apparent in Colombia — the...
Overturned fishing skiffs lie abandoned on the shores of what was Bolivia’s second-largest lake. Beetles dine on bird carcasses and gulls fight for scraps under a glaring sun in what marshes remain.
Lake Poopó was officially declared evaporated in December. Hundreds, if not...
