World News
Today, all around the world, but specifically in the United States, iconic internet companies like Wikipedia, Reddit, Craigslist, Wordpress and many more, have launched a coordinated blackout of their sites in protest for the censorship bills SOPA and PIPA.
Last Friday a New York court denied a Chevron bid to prevent Ecuadorean plaintiffs from collecting on a record-breaking $18 billion payment in damages over pollution in the Amazon jungle, by the American oil company.
Last Monday, Canada announced that it is withdrawing from the Climate Change Agreement known as the Kyoto Protocol. Peter Kent, Canada’s minister of environment said the decision would save its country around $14 billion in penalties.
Last week, a couple of subjects took over the environmental and indigenous activism agenda: the Belo Monte Dam project in Brazil and the Amazon Highway in Bolivia. A conflict between progress and nature is at the hearth of both issues, but what is the right thing to do?
Mexico youths, Skyler and Lyndie, are participating in a worldwide campaign to save 600 million stray dogs.
On September 6th, Peru’s new indigenous Prior Consultation law was approved by President Ollanta Humala. It is an important development for the indigenous rights cause, just a few days after Wikileaks released a cable from the US Embassy in Lima, exposing a growing concern by the US Government about the…
All over the year Puerto Vallarta has turned out to be one of the favorite destinations chosen by the travelers in numerous surveys. This time the subscribers of the magazine Travel & Leisure were those who chose Puerto Vallarta as the 8th best city in Latin America.
It's been three years since Ecuador became the first country in the world to grant nature "inalienable rights" in its constitution. As the country (on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorian plaintiffs) continues in its ongoing legal battle against Chevron (formerly Texaco) for damages associated with the company's destructive practices in the Amazon,…
In a report issued on June 2, 2011, the Global Commission on Drug Policy called the war on drugs "a costly failure", and urged world governments to consider legalization and regulation, to end "the criminalization, marginalization and stigmatization of people who use drugs but do no harm to others." The…
In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to grant "inalienable rights" to nature in its Constitution. A recent judgement against oil giant Texaco (now Chevron) regarding the company's practices in the Amazon, and the company's very public refusal to honor the ruling, sheds light on the enforcement…
Turkey is the latest country to engage in a discussion about affording constitutional rights to Mother Earth. Following the example of Ecuador -- the first country in the world to grant inalienable rights to Mother Nature -- and Bolivia, some 40 Turkish politicians, academics and lawyers have organized the Initiative for…
At 1:00pm on April 17, 2011, twenty-six people carried a chair to the Malecon in Puerto Vallarta and took a seat facing the ocean. In tandem with similar groups in cities around the world, they were expressing their solidarity with artist Ai Weiwei, and asking for his safe release from…
With the cooperation of politicians and grassroots organizations, Bolivia is set to pass the Law of Mother Earth which will grant nature the same rights and protections as humans. The piece of legislation, called la Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra, is intended to encourage a radical shift in…
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake measuring 8.9 hit the coast of Japan and triggered a devastating 30-foot tsunami. Warnings were issued for cities all along the Pacific coast, including Puerto Vallarta. By the time the waves reached Banderas Bay, they'd been diminished in power and force, and met our shores…
Update: 4:00 pm PV time Sunday March 13. Tide surges were felt in Banderas Bay as a result of the Tsunami effect caused by Japan's recent earthquake. Watch the video below to see how the tide surge affected the Nuevo Vallarta canals and marina.
The BBC’s automotive TV show 'Top Gear' has come under fire for its characterization of Mexican carmaker Mastretta’s sports car, the MXT, as “lazy”, “feckless”, and “flatulent” – and for implying that these are national qualities of Mexico.
On January 2, 2011, the guidelines for the Annex to the Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) went into effect. According to Milenio, Mexican underwater archaeologist Pilar Luna Erreguerena was appointed as one of eleven members of the…
A new report out of Energy Policy journal suggests that with the right technologies and measures, a 100% renewable energy goal is achievable by 2030.
The UN's World Meteorological Organisation released news this morning that confirms what many have already guessed at: "2010 was the warmest year on record, confirming a 'significant' long-term trend of global warming."
After years of petitioning the Austrian government for the return of the Penacho de Montezuma, Mexico may finally receive the significant headdress - but only temporarily.
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