Mexico

Residents and activists from the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosí travelled to Toronto to tell the shareholders of a Canadian mining company that their investments are at risk because the billion-dollar Cerro San Pedro gold and silver mine is illegal and environmentally unsafe. "We want the Canadian people to be aware their investments have serious environmental and social damages in other countries. The mining is right next to monuments of national importance."

For many, the very mention of Tijuana conjures up images of debauchery, drunken 18-year olds, and Montezuma’s Revenge. What it might not conjure is a vision of sustainability. Especially when it’s in terms of tract housing developments. Yet Urbi, one of Mexico’s premiere housing developers, is attempting to create just that.

The North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is charting where Mexico, Canada & the US will go in environmental policy cooperation until 2030. Which challenges are they facing? What should they make their priorities?

At least two wildlife preserves will be forced to close down due to the new border fence between The U.S. and Mexico. The Department of Homeland Security is circumventing 30 environmental laws and regulations to build the fence.

I don’t know if you caught it, but the whole Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama flap over NAFTA exposed a dirty little secret: The North American Free Trade Agreement isn’t about American jobs or cheap Mexican labor—it’s about Canadian oil....

As the battle over coal plants in Western Kansas rages, two bloggers go head-to-head with positions and solutions. Part 1

Organic farming methods help peasant farmers in Mexico as part of Playa Viva community development efforts.

Scientists have raised the alarm that less than two years remain before it's too late for saving a rare North American porpoise from going extinct. Only 150 vaquitas, the world's smallest porpoise, remain. They're being decimated by fishing nets in the Gulf of California that accidentally trap and kill the sea mammals. This news story summarizes a newly published journal article where scientists urgently call for immediate action to save the vaquita.

While most of the discussion about a US/Mexico fence has centered on immigration and urban areas, there's also concern about the potential impact these barriers would have on wildlife. Great photo essay about the most-affected wildlife and natural systems that span the US/Mexico border.

Calderon ordered the release of FONDEN (Mexico’s Fund for Disasters) to rebuild thousands of affected households and infrastructure. He said the funds would be quickly released but that the state’s recovery would be slow and prolonged.

If you still believe there's no problem with global warming

At least 20,000 people in southern Mexico remained trapped Monday on the rooftops of homes as hungry and dehydrated victims scrambled for government packages of food and medicine.

Some 80,000 people in 17 towns remained isolated by the floods. Most of them were out of reach for rescue teams and would have to wait for help until the water level falls, the Mexican Navy said.

A bootmaker to world leaders, including President Bush and Vicente Fox, is in a Colorado jail, charged with money laundering and conspiring to illegally smuggle the skins of protected animals into the United States to provide exotic footwear for high-end clients.

The arrest of Martin Villegas — and Mexico’s raid of a warehouse filled with hundreds of cowboy boots and belts made from endangered species — has raised questions about how much Fox knew of the scheme and whether the former Mexican president purchased illegal boots himself.

An increase in demand for corn as a biofuel ingredient has sent prices of Mexico’s staple food soaring -- and protesters on to the streets.

"In a country like Mexico, the government's assumption that the market will sort everything out is irresponsible and absurd," Suárez says. "It leads to a policy void and a very uncertain situation in which food security is in danger."