Have you ever heard of Andisols? They are a vitally important building block for ecosystems in the Americas including Andean forests and high-altitude wetlands known as páramos, not to mention the...read more
Few places in the world are so vulnerable to environmental degradation from mining than Colombia. The country ranks second in coal reserves in South America and is home to what could be one of the...read more
By Florencia Ortúzar, legal advisor, AIDA The first time I heard about the mysterious “rubbish island ” I was shocked. How could a huge floating mass as big as a country go unnoticed in the ocean...read more
By Haydée Rodríguez, legal advisor, AIDA We are witnessing the biggest wave of urbanization in history . More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. The United Nations Population Fund (...read more
