The Nicaraguan National Zoo is releasing tapirs to increase their numbers in the wild, but conservationists worry about threats to the animals from hunters.
Costa Rica's most intense rainy-season months are bringing more problems to National Liberation Party (PLN) presidential candidate Johnny Araya's pet project as mayor, San...
Heatwaves, floods, droughts and rising seas are among the threats that will intensify through warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report released in Stockholm.
Maduro would have addressed the annual U.N. General Assembly for the first time since becoming head of state following the death earlier this year of longtime President Hugo Chávez.
Organizers of the Planet, People and Peace Conference highlighted organic chocolatiers and an indigenous fair trade store as examples of environmentally-friendly and "sustainable" tourism.
