Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The “new Panama Canal” – that’s how some are hailing a highway now under construction in South America that spans the continent, ...

AS in the case of Tacna-Arica, the intrinsic value of the area in dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay is not commensurate with the persistence of the controversy or the bitterness of feeling which it ...

So-called “environmentally friendly” charcoal is subsidizing the destruction of the Gran Chaco, which spans from Bolivia and Brazil to Paraguay and Argentina. As in the Amazon to the north, cattle ...

The “new Panama Canal” – that’s how some are hailing a highway now under construction in South America that spans the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Bi-Oceanic Corridor cuts through ...

Major banks and financial institutions including BlackRock, BNP Paribas, HSBC and Santander continue to hold substantial shares in – or provide financial services to – beef companies linked to illegal ...

Although the U. S. and its big South American neighbors prevailed upon Bolivia and Paraguay to stop fighting in the Gran Chaco two years ago, the Chaco Peace Conference, meeting intermittently in ...

With the beef and charcoal industries on the rise, the future of the Chaco and its indigenous residents is looking less bright. By Joel E. Correia/The Conversation Published Oct 3, 2019 2:50 PM EDT ...

Congress is considering opening up natural gas exploration and extraction in Médanos del Chaco National Park, a protected area in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco, a savannah and dry forest ecosystem along the ...

Where Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina join on the map of South America lies the Gran Chaco, a steaming, insect-swarming triangle 600 miles by 300 between the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers. British ...

The fires raging across the Brazilian Amazon have captured the world’s attention. Meanwhile, South America’s second-largest forest, the Gran Chaco, is disappearing in plain sight. More than half of ...