GUATEMALA CITY – A new Guatemalan army contingent known as the “green battalion” has begun operations to protect a national park in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a vast tropical forest area in the northern province of El Peten. Guatemalan armed forces spokesman Rony Urizar told a local radio station Friday that the military contingent – [...]

The following excerpt is from a September 21, 2010 article published by Reuters.  To read the article in its entirety, click here. (Reuters) – Dotted with active volcanoes, Central America is seeking to tap its unique geography to produce green energy and cut dependence on oil imports as demand for electricity outstrips supply. Sitting above [...]

The following excerpt is from a June 25, 2010 article published by the Vancouver Sun.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The Guatemalan government said it would suspend mining at Goldcorp Inc.’s Marlin mine in response to concerns raised about the company’s environmental and human rights performance. But Goldcorp, which denies [...]

The following excerpt is from a June 23, 2010 article published by redOrbit.com.  To view the article in its entirety, please click here. Work to augment efforts to clean and protect lake and drinking water from harmful algae blooms. A team of scientists from the University of Nevada, Reno, DRI, Arizona State University and University [...]

The following excerpt is from a June 9, 2010 article published by Reuters.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY Wed Jun 9, 2010 2:07pm EDT GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Biologists tracking jaguars in the Guatemalan jungle might smell nice but it’s all in the name of science, with researchers [...]

The following excerpt is from a May 16, 2010 article published by IPS News.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY, May 16, 2010 (Tierramérica) – The shortage of resources for law enforcement and high demand from the wealthy countries of the North have left the field wide open in [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 30, 2010 article published by Earth Times.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala City – Guatemala restricted air traffic Thursday because of ash clouds being spewed by two volcanoes in the Central American country. The Fuego volcano near the city of Antigua Guatemala [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 28, 2010 article published by the Latin American Herald Tribune.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemalan environmentalists and authorities launched a campaign Friday to regulate whale- and dolphin-watching in the country’s Pacific waters in order to preserve these species and [...]

The following excerpt is from a February 22, 2010 article published in the Los Angeles Times.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. SG Biofuels on Monday revealed a proprietary variety of the jatropha curcas plant that the Encinitas-based company said will yield more oil at a more profitable rate. The newly [...]

The following excerpt is from a February 18, 2010 article published by AudubonMagazine.org.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here.  Last week, I returned from a Guatemalan birding extravaganza, the likes of which I’ve never before experienced, with four solid days—5 a.m. starts, sporadic meals, hours of fantastic bird watching—in a country [...]

The following excerpt is from a November 29, 2009 article published by Time.com.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. By Ezra Fieser In his 1934 travel book Beyond the Mexique Bay, Aldous Huxley compared Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to Italy’s Lake Como. The Italian body of water, he wrote, “touches the limit [...]