The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDF) earlier this week announced that Royal Dutch Shell is postponing its plan to drill off the coast of the National Wildlife Refuge this summer. It said it fought a hard legal battle to stop the oil...
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On Monday 17 Ecuadorian courts found Chevron (former Texaco) guilty of environmental contamination of the Amazon and was ordered to pay a fine of $9bn in damages, the largest judgement ever against a U.S. company for environmental contamination. It...
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Dispatch from Brazil: the energy issue
Brazil takes a lot of pride in the fact that 48% of its energy matrix is renewable, mostly thanks to hydropower, the source of 80% of the electricity consumed in the country, and ethanol, which has been powering vehicles in the country since the...
The 400-plus-mile plane journey between Manaus and Urucu is like an overture to a green opera. From the airplane you gaze in awe at the vastness of the Amazon forest, a sea of trees that lies quietly and powerfully on the ground below, looking...
