Alticultura and the future of the Altiplano
Simon Croft met with Alticultura's Rachael Shenyo to discuss the organisation and its ongoing projects.
Banning plastic…a problem or a solution?
Recently, municipal authorities banned the sale and distribution of products made of plastic in some…
Adobe is not poverty. It is resilience.
By Diana Pastor For many years adobe has been used in Guatemala as the construction…
Hunger caused by climate change is driving migration to the US
In 2010, US law enforcement arrested around 50,000 undocumented migrants at the border with Mexico.…
The fight for water on Guatemala’s southern coast
By Matthew Burnett-Stuart For over a decade, 13 communities of the La Blanca municipality in…
Bad Blood: Migration and the meat industry
By Patricia Schwartz and Sean McNulty Before dawn in Quetzaltenango, work had already begun at…
Nagoya’s deadly legacy
By REDSAG The Nagoya protocol was generated from the agreement on biological diversity for the…
Oceans in Crisis: Coral Bleaching and Ocean Acidification
By Richard Brown Divers at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are emerging from the water…
Forest fires set by drug traffickers threaten Guatemala’s virgin forest and archaeological wonders
Forest fires devastated at least 80 square kilometers of preserved forest in Petén before the…