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CALI, Colombia - An iguana is standing high at a park in the Uribe neighborhood. The park was created by mechanic Orlando Machado, and is home to around 300 iguanas. This was Machado's contribution to the development of the community....

While land development, human settlement, and logging are the main sources of deforestation , the bedrock of this global ecocide is the construction of roads which tear through the rainforest habitat, laying down concrete in every direction with each newly...

It was a typical Tuesday night in South America's largest nation. In Sao Paulo, maids and security guards made their way home after another day's grind. In Rio, samba musicians began taking to the stage, their faces glazed in sweat...

Brazil — British pop star Sting says Brazil's government should listen to the voices of local indigenous groups before building a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest. Sting told a news conference Sunday in Sao Paulo the decision...

El Salvador�Salvadoran authorities raised the death toll from devastating floods and mudslides this week to 192 from 184 as more bodies turned up in storm-ravaged areas of the country...Broken down by region, 89 people were killed in central San Vicente...

Thousands of people have also been displaced in floods and mudslides caused by the storm. "Various governments, through their ambassadors, and in some other cases directly ... have called me to express to us their solidarity and, at the same...

Conservation groups said lower quotas for Atlantic tuna fishing set in a meeting in Brazil would encourage illegal fishing and diminish long-term gains. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas in Recife, Brazil, set the quota for the...

The aim of the fund, which is backed by 35 countries, is to begin cutting the rate of deforestation immediately, without waiting for the United Nations to complete negotiations on its own scheme for saving rainforests. Payments will be made...

Denmark's prime minister says the country's climate minister will leave her Cabinet post to head next month's Copenhagen climate summit. Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen says Climate Minister Connie Hedegaard has been named minister in charge of the two-week international...