The Andes

Peru: no global warming skeptics in Huaraz

As international experts gather in Lima to debate the impacts of global warming on the Andean region, local campesinos are already feeling its effects in Huaraz.

The Amazon

Peru: Hunt Oil contract to re-ignite Amazon uprising?

Harakmbut leaders in Peru’s Amazon region of Madre de Dios issued a statement imposing a one-week deadline for Hunt Oil to quit their territory before indigenous communities physically expel them.

Central America

LA Times op-ed: “non-coup” in Honduras

An LA Times op-ed by Miguel A. Estrada, “Honduras’ non-coup,” is the latest in a barrage of legalistic sophistries in defense of the Honduran putsch being assembled by the political right.

Planet Watch

“Peak Oil Day” dodges political roots of crisis

World oil prices peaked at $147 per barrel one year ago today—but the geological determinism of the “peak oil” theorists ignores the global political struggle for control of oil.