In Venezuela, Anxiety About Ramping Up Oil Production in the Heavily Polluted Lake Maracaibo Region
Experts and local activists, wary of past exploitation, are hoping it will be different this time—but aren’t confident it will be.
By Avril Silva
South America
The Brazilian Supreme Court Makes Way for the ‘Grain Train’
By Georgina Gustin
Latin America Faces ‘Hydrological Whiplash’ as Climate Risks Mount
By Bob Berwyn
Amazon Deforestation at Eight-Year Low, Report Shows
By Gabriel Matias Castilho
As Energy, War and Climate Collide, a Conference in Colombia Charts a Path Beyond Fossil Fuels
By Bob Berwyn
How to Think About the Extractive Problem of Lithium Mining
Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth
As the UN Global Climate Talks Lose Momentum, a Smaller Coalition Eyes a Fossil Fuel Exit
By Bob Berwyn
Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Protecting Colombia’s Magdalena River From Fracking
By Katie Surma
At ‘Sloth World’ in Florida, Wild Sloths Have Died by the Dozens
By Katie Surma, Kiley Price
Scientists Deploy First Satellite Tag on a Leatherback Sea Turtle in Ecuador to Better Reveal Gaps in Ocean Protection
By Teresa Tomassoni
In the Fight to Defend the Amazon, This Indigenous Community’s Secret Weapon Is Science
Story and photos by Katie Surma
A New Study Links a Record-Breaking Tropical Disease Outbreak in Peru to Climate-Driven Extreme Weather
By Liza Gross
Patagonia Is Burning
By Anika Jane Beamer
Trump Wants to Accelerate Extraction in Venezuela. So Do Drug Trafficking Organizations.
By Katie Surma
‘The Dirtiest, Worst Oil’ Is in Venezuela
By Phil McKenna
Oil Industry Will Eye Venezuela Warily, Experts Say
By Marianne Lavelle, Georgina Gustin
In Ecuador’s Battle of Toad vs. Road, Toad Wins
By Katie Surma
Latest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million
By Katie Surma
