BEIJING – The United States and China said Saturday that they have agreed to intensify efforts to address climate change and to work together to seek a common platform ahead of a global summit on the issue at the end of next year.
HAVANA, Cuba – Cuban President Raúl Castro Tuesday railed against U.S. spying as he opened a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders, a group set up by Venezuela's late anti-Western leader Hugo Chávez to counter U.S. influence.
Warming temperatures and changing rain patterns favor harmful insects that attack the fruit, threatening the country's multi-million-dollar banana industry.
Larry Kraft is a former high-tech exec traveling the world with his wife and two kids to learn about the environment and the effects of climate change. Here’s what he discovered in Costa Rica’s Monteverde Cloud Forest.
Puntarenas, on Costa Rica’s central Pacific, is the province most affected by climate change, with damages in the six-year period reaching $164.5 million.
This Central American country of 14 million doesn’t make the list of the world’s top carbon emitters. But it is one of the countries that will suffer most from climate change.
Guatemala is one of the lowest per-capita generators of carbon emissions in Latin America, but one of the countries most at-risk for the consequences of climate change.
Big dams produce lots of cheap, clean electricity, but they often uproot villages in dam-flooded areas and destroy the livelihoods of the people the institution is supposed to help
