A Hamas leader said that the draft resolution for Palestinian statehood presented to the UN Security Council is "disastrous," and has "no future in the land of Palestine."
In a reversal for Peru's Yanacocha Mining, a campesino family convicted of "land usurpation" against the company had their sentence overturned on appeal.
The slaying of an indigenous leader who planned to travel from Ecuador to denounce a mining project before the Lima climate summit is the latest attack on regional ecological defenders.
With work about to begin on an inter-oceanic canal through Nicaragua, campesinos who stand to be evicted for the mega-scheme pledge resistance and warn of a "massacre."
Indigenous communities in Guatemala are to receive reparations for massacres aimed at clearing the land for the World Bank-funded Chixoy hydroelectric project.
Police clashed with protesters in Peru's northern city of Cajamarca during a demonstration over the police slaying of a barrio resident—one of several social conflicts across the region.
Activist Atilano Román Tirado, an opponent of the Picachos dam in Mexico's Sinaloa state, was slain by hitmen in the middle of a radio broadcast in Mazatlán.
The Anbar Tribal Council warns that the western Iraqi governorate is 80% under control of ISIS, and remaining tribal fighters could be routed without urgent intervention.
Satellite photos released by NASA reveal that the eastern basin of the Aral Sea has completely dried up. Water levels are less than 10% of what they were 50 years ago.
Activists charge that a regional director of Peru's Water Authority was sacked for refusing to approve "relocation" of a mountain lake in preparation for the Conga mega-mine.
The mayor of a jungle pueblo was among three killed in clashes during a general strike related to the Camisea gas pipeline in Peru's Convención Valley.
Long favored by the Mexican government, Grupo México is becoming a major embarrassment as its biggest mine persists in polluting the Sonora River.
