Grist | Topics | 10 Results

RESULTS		Results 1 – 10 of 10
Headline	Author	Published	Section
Forgive and Let Live Debt-for-nature swap will protect rainforests in Guatemala		03 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Forgive and Let Live Debt-for-nature swap will protect rainforests in Guatemala About 20 percent of Guatemala's debt to the United States will be forgiven in exchange for forest conservation efforts in the Central American nation, officials announced yesterday. It's the largest debt-for-nature swap carried out under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998, which allows debt owed to the U.S. to be inve ...
Topics: Central America, news, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Croak and Dagger Mass frog die-offs linked to global warming		12 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Croak and Dagger Mass frog die-offs linked to global warming The mass disappearance of colorful harlequin frog species in Central and South America has long puzzled biologists, but research published in the latest issue of Nature fingers a culprit: global warming. (When in doubt ...) The deadly chytrid fungus that's killing off the tiny amphibians is flourishing in places where it's gotten warmer a ...
Topics: Central America, climate, news, South America, wildlife (all these topics)

Stan in the Place Where You Live Mexico and Central America reel under latest gulf hurricane		05 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Stan in the Place Where You Live Mexico and Central America reel under latest gulf hurricane The name "Stan" does not typically inspire fear (even if it's better than "Stanley"), but a hurricane with that moniker has been wreaking havoc down south. In what is sure to be another blow to North America's hobbled energy supply, all three of Mexico's crude-oil loading ports on the Gulf of Mexico ...
Topics: Central America, energy, Mexico, news, oil (all these topics)

Silence Is Beholden Are corporations hog-tying conservation groups in CAFTA fight?	Liza Grandia, et al	02 Jun 2005	Soapbox
Macaws and effect in Central America. A year ago, President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Since then, the controversial plan has inspired protests across the U.S. and in Central America. And while past trade agreements have been ratified by Congress in less than two months, the Bush administration has delayed the vote on CAFTA multiple times, unable to ra ...
Topics: business, Central America, Conservation International, environmental justice, globalization, Nature Conservancy, politics, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

The Day After Tamayo Father José Andrés Tamayo Cortez guides the fight for Honduran forests	Michelle Nijhuis	20 Apr 2005	Main Dish
José Andrés Tamayo Cortez. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The woodlands of southeastern Honduras range from mountaintop cloud forests to low-lying rainforests; they are home to more than 500 bird species and a wide array of other animals and plants. But in recent years, more than half of the 12 million acres of forest in the isolated Olancho region has been mowed down ...
Topics: Central America, logging (all these topics)

The Gold Shoulder Latin American activists have string of successes against gold mines		15 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
The Gold Shoulder Latin American activists have string of successes against gold mines Even with mining laws, environmental laws, and international free-trade agreements heavily weighted against them, activists in Latin America have had a string of recent successes stopping open-pit and cyanide heap-leach mines from polluting their groundwater and decimating hillsides. In Peru last November, p ...
Topics: Central America, Costa Rica, mining and drilling, news, Peru (all these topics)

Getting Cross Guatemalan Catholic church protests mining project		13 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Getting Cross Guatemalan Catholic church protests mining project Catholic Church officials in Guatemala have become unlikely activists in a fight against a major open-pit gold mine being carved out in the mountains near San Miguel Ixtahuacan. Speaking from the pulpit, on a church-owned radio station, and during street demonstrations, church leaders have been educating parishioners, mos ...
Topics: Central America, mining and drilling, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

An Immodest Proposal How a little blue pill could get big results -- in species conservation, we mean	J. D. Smith	22 Mar 2005	Soapbox
Quick: what do sea turtles, black bears, and Philippine fruit bats have in common? Rise up on behalf of the turtles. At first glance, not much. They don't look alike, and they have very different ranges and habitats. In fact, one would be hard-pressed even to find them on any of the same guest lists. But these creatures share one very important trait. Along with sea ...
Topics: Asia, Central America, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Tamayo-Paced Honduras forest activists slow deforestation		21 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Tamayo-Paced Honduras forest activists slow deforestation In central Honduras, where deforestation is widespread, poor farmers and rural residents under the leadership of Roman Catholic priest Andres Tamayo have had a string of successes in their struggle to save the pine forests that sustain them (or used to). The activists say Honduras' forests have been poorly managed for decades, resulting in topsoil erosion, water ...
Topics: Central America, deforestation, news (all these topics)

We Take Our Coffee Green Central American coffee industry rebounds by going green		19 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
We Take Our Coffee Green Central American coffee industry rebounds by going green A global surplus of coffee five years ago sent the Central American coffee industry into a tailspin, but it is gradually recovering by focusing on high-quality beans -- which in many cases means organically grown. In that rarest of things, a genuine win-win situation, the industry is being helped by an odd coalition including large U.S. ...
Topics: Central America, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Stories About: Central America