Because of its central importance to people’s livelihoods, health and wellbeing, culture and identity, land has often been at the heart of conflict dynamics...

Anecdotes from crisis-hit families underscore the economic and social consequences of floods, storms and cyclones

What political solutions are on the table for Haiti? The Caribbean country has been suffering from the activities of criminal gangs for decades and is...

Talks to set up a fund to pay for climate losses and damages were pushed online after extreme weather wreaked havoc across the United Arab Emirates, but the...

Bolivia’s rich biodiversity makes it a prime target for traffickers. It stands as one of the world’s most biodiverse countries, hosting nearly half of South...

Mercury, employed by miners to extract gold from soil and sediment, is smuggled daily in bottles across Bolivia’s borders with Peru and Brazil, reaching...

Bolivia is in the midst of a gold rush caused by record gold prices and growing international demand. This gold rush has been facilitated by permissive mining...

Bolivia is the world’s third-largest producer of coca, after Colombia and Peru, and a key crossroads for cocaine and other drugs. Coca crops are grown legally...

For years in Bolivia, high-value woods like cedar and the mara variety of mahogany have been felled to feed domestic and international construction and...

Deforestation has reached alarming levels in Bolivia. One of the main drivers of tree cover loss – loss of the canopy – is the rise in slash-and-burn land...