Topic: North America
(Reuters) - Canadian gold miner New Gold said full operations will resume at its Cerro San Pedro mine in Mexico after a federal district court lifted restrictions on the use of explosives at the mine. Operations at the mine were suspended in November last year after the country's environment ministry, acting on a federal court ruling, revoked the mine's ...
The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit in Mexico seeking a binding climate deal, the president of the Maldives said Wednesday. A price tag needs to be put on "the extent to which we destroy the atmosphere, the extent to which we pollute the atmosphere," President Mohamed Nasheed said ...
Latin Grammy winner Ramon Ayala said the lights went out, people started running and he and his band hit the floor when the Mexican military raided a drug cartel's holiday party in December. Speaking publicly for the first time since the raid ...
Long famous as one of the world's most polluted megalopolises, gritty Mexico City is beginning to see the fruits of years of clean-up efforts and to breathe somewhat cleaner air, experts say. "The pollution problem is still there, but it is a fact that we have been fighting pollution for more than 20 years and the improvement is undeniable ...
