Producers hope a new non-Arabica variety will be more resistant to “rust.” 

A prominent environmental group asked the Superior Arbitration Court to issue an injunction against State-owned Electric Utility (CDEEE).  

The work on Argentina’s hydroelectric dam named for President Néstor Kirchner will begin in November under a cloud of contention.  Several groups fear its affects on the Perito Moreno glacier.   In Chile a similarly controversial mega-dam project was cancelled. 

Chile’s Atacama Desert may be the country’s solar ‘promised land,’ but when it comes to wind energy, central-northern Coquimbo region (IV) reigns supreme. 

The love that the people of Quebradas have for their pueblo is evident in their tidy gardens, trash-free roads, immaculate schools, and above all, their sparkling sage-green Quebradas River.  This respect for the river and its environment can be traced, in large part, to the creation of the non-profit AQUA (Asociacion Quebradeña de Artesanos) in

The dumping of oil waste into the waters of the Marañón, Corrientes, Pastaza and Tigre rivers, and the Amazon forest is producing fatal consequences for the local population, mostly to the Kukama ethnic group.  

An agreement over oil clean up with ENAP (Empresa Nacional del Petróleo) the Chilean state-owned hydrocarbon company, has divided fishermen in Quintero. 

A five-year moratorium has been proposed on pineapple production in Costa Rica; climate change scenarios include intense droughts and floods, as well as a rising sea ​​level on the coast.

The key to controlling invasive lionfish threatening artisanal fisheries in the Caribbean may be eating them. 

The very painful disease, transmitted by mosquito, arrived less than a year ago in the Americas, where it has spread from the Caribbean to Central America and South America, infecting more than a million people.  The United States has already registered some cases.