With biodiesel from soybeans playing the leading role, Argentina is beginning to require plant-based fuel blends for all vehicles.

Nnimmo Bassey, Chair of Friends of the Earth International sums up the last two weeks of climate talks in Copenhagen from the backroom deals to rise of the Climate Justice movement.

Honduran coup government continues repressive tactics on election day (Report from San Pedro Sula)

WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (IPS) - The story began almost 40 years ago, but when filmmaker Joe Berlinger "saw villagers eating canned tuna fish because the fish in their rivers were too contaminated to eat, [he] knew [he] had to do something".

International Investors Warned Against Heightened Risk of Oil Operations Within Indigenous Territories Without Consent

GENEVA, Aug 13 (IPS) - The head of Colombia's biggest association of indigenous people is concerned that allowing U.S. troops to use military bases in his country will signal a regression to former times when the United States exercised control over Latin America, while a native activist warned of an increase in the number of cases of sexual abuse of young indigenous women by foreign soldiers.

Interview with Diego Alejandro Cardona (CENSAT Agua Viva) on monoculture plantations in Colombia