Planet Watch
ICC to prosecute environmental crimes
The International Criminal Court released a policy document calling for prosecution of individuals for atrocities committed by destroying the environment.
Tag: control of water
South Asia
India: high court rules in violent water dispute
Riots broke out after India's highest court ordered the state of Karnataka to share water from the disputed Cauvery River with the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu.
Mexico
Mexico: clashes over power plant in Morelos
Communal farmers in Mexico's Morelos state clashed with riot police at a protest over construction of an aqueduct bringing water to a new gas-fired power plant.
The Andes
Colombia: illegal mining the ‘new coca’?
Outlaw mining operations are a growing sideline for Colombia's narco networks, in a nexus with paramilitaries and companies operating on the margins of the law.
Greater Middle East
Yemen: Saudis bomb anti-bombing demonstration
Saudi fighter jets carried out air-strikes on a peaceful rally in Yemen's capital Sanaa that had been called to protest Saudi air-strikes, leaving several dead.
Southern Cone
Mapuche militants burn machinery at hydro site
Members of Mapuche Ancestral Resistance burned two excavator machines being used to build a hydro-dam in southern Argentina, demanding restoration of traditional lands.
Central America
Panama: water shortages threaten ‘mega’ canal
Panama opened the long-awaited expanded canal, designed to accommodate new "mega-ships." But the drought-stricken country struggles to conserve water for the giant locks.
Central America
Anti-canal leader arrested in Nicaragua
Francisca Ramírez Torres, leader of the movement against the planned Nicaraguan canal, was arrested without charge by National Police agents in a raid on her village.
The Andes
Colombia: court protects more lands from mining
Colombia’s constitutional court overturned a 2012 government decree that allowed mining in nine areas of the country, together making up 20% of the national territory.
Mexico
Pressure on Mexico to free peasant ecologist
Mexican ecological defender Ildefonso Zamora is now in his seventh month behind bars, despite calls for his relase from Amnesty International and Greenpeace.
The Amazon
‘Stop Brazil’s Genocide’ campaign greets Olympics
Advocacy group Survival International has launched a campaign to prevent the annihilation of tribal peoples in Brazil, to coincide with the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
Planet Watch
A ‘New Oil Order’?
Experts declare a "new oil order" in which hydrocarbons will lose market share to renewables. But is it market conditions or geopolitics that explain the current price slump?