Indigenous protesters lifted their blockade of the Río Marañon as Lima acceded to their demand that a high-level delegation be sent to their remote community of Saramurillo.
Amid unprecedented protests, a federal appeals court ruled against Native American tribes, allowing construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline to move forward.
The Pentagon will send 600 additional troops to Iraq to help in the offensive to retake Mosul from ISIS—but it is unclear if they will be backing Shi'ite, Sunni or Kurdish forces.
Peru's government announced that an official delegation will meet with indigenous protesters who have been blockading a main tributary of the Amazon River.
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.
A new spill on Peru's northern trans-Andean oil pipeline has contaminated a rainforest community—the fourth rupture from the 40-year-old pipeline this year.
Native Americans, ranchers and farmers launched a blockade of a highway in North Dakota to bar crews from reaching the construction site of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Under the plan for demobilization of Colombia's FARC guerillas, special zones are to be established for fighters to "concentrate" and then be integrated into civilian life.
Canada's Federal Court of Appeal overturned approval of Enbridge energy company's Northern Gateway pipeline that would link Alberta's oil sands to British Columbia's coast.
Peru's northern trans-Andean oil pipeline suffered its third serious rupture of the year, spilling over 1,000 barrels of crude into an expanse of the Amazon rainforest.
Colombia's feared anti-riot force, the ESMAD, used tear-gas against campesinos occupying lands in the Amazonian department of Caquetá to block oil exploration efforts.
Police arrested 65 protesters, many in kayaks, who shut down Australia's biggest coal export terminal as part of a global direct action campaign against fossil fuels.
