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Regardless of pressures from international leaders to join the campaign to “decarbonize,” overcoming poverty with economic growth powered by fossil fuels is taking precedence in these countries.

Google has employed its network of street-view vehicles to also measure street-level air quality in recent years, through an initiative it calls “Project Air View.” Today, it’s making available to scientists...

On the coastal edge of northern Chile’s Atacama Desert sits the Piedras Bayas BeachCamp, sustainable lodgings that offer a low-impact stay in the world’s driest desert...

With a recent ruling, the Colombian Supreme Court has made Colombia the first country in South America to recognize the personhood rights of the Amazon Rainforest...

Researchers at the University of Exeter have discovered 81 earthworks known as geoglpyhs across 1,200 miles of Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. This evidence, outlined in the journal Nature Communications, indicates that the...

Wildlife experts are worried that the illicit trade in jaguars appears to be growing — and they've connected it to Chinese construction projects. According to the journal a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02314-5">Nature,...

In collaboration with local and international conservation groups, the Peruvian government has established Yaguas National Park in the country's far eastern territory to permanently protect millions of acres of pristine rainforest. “This...

Venezuela's last remaining glacier will be completely gone within the next 10 to 20 years. Until as recently as 1991, five glaciers were found in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida mountain range in Venezuela. As climate change...

The surprising discovery of fossilized remains of five early humans in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco has led archeologists to believe that Homo sapiens originated 100,000 years earlier than previously thought...

Scientists found the first fluorescent frog in the world - by accident - in South America. Researchers at Buenos Aires' Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum stumbled across the discovery while studying pigment in...

These aren't your grandmother's shag carpets - Alexandra Kehayoglou creates incredible rugs that look like miniature pastures and meadows. Kehayoglou sources leftover scraps of wool thread from her family's carpet factory...

In recent years, Chile has invested so much in its solar power industry that the country is now generating more electricity from the sun than it knows what to do with...

Last month, Lake Poopó, a saltwater lake high in the Andes mountains, disappeared off the face of the map. In the 1990s the lake held at least 2,000 square kilometers (772 square miles) of water. While the water levels sometimes...

Plans by the Peruvian government, alongside a Brazilian firm, to build some 20 hydroelectric dams across the main truck of the River Maranon would cause the displacement of thousands of individuals, and contribute to the...

Originally from a left-wing family from La Paz, 'hermana Libertad' keeps herself busy with the hostel, giving offerings to the lake and teaching bioarchitecture as well as empowering local women in a still very macho society...