The Cool Down on MSN8d
Experts sound alarm over 'silent genocide' in Amazon rainforest: 'We are condemned with sicknesses, nausea, and open sores'
"They are putting the life and the cultural existence of Indigenous people at risk." Experts sound alarm over 'silent ...
China’s $1.3 Billion Gamble on Peru Port Faces Snags From Andes to Amazon
China has made a $1.3 billion bet that a new port in Peru will boost access to South America’s agricultural bounty. Cashing ...
Mongabay on MSN2d
The calm before the storm: The first half of the 20th century in the Pan Amazon
The period between the end of the rubber boom and the onset of the colonisation frenzy that began in the 1960s was a time of ...
Cfr.org1d
Illegal Gold Finances Latin America’s Dictators & Cartels. The United States Must Lead the Fight Against It.
Latin America’s criminal organizations used to make most of their billions trafficking drugs. But now, in Colombia, Peru, the ...
The Independent4d
Can cash combat the climate crisis? For these Amazonian communities, just maybe
Deep in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, where communities maintaining traditional lifestyles now find themselves regularly battling climate change-fueled fires and floods, the president of two ...
Mongabay on MSN7d
The rubber boom and its legacy in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia
The invention of vulcanized rubber (1839), followed by the popularization of bicycles (1870s) and the invention of the ...