Could uncontacted Amazonian tribes in Peru be wiped out by oil giants? Not if they don’t exist. If they do, they could impede the country’s quest for a windfall. Rory Carroll reports.
Population explosion, ecological disaster and weak leadership probably killed off the Maya at the height of their powers. Are the modern-day parallels too close to ignore? Rory Carroll reports.
The country suggests that the developed world pay it $350 million a year not to pump any more crude, thereby avoiding further pollution of its eastern rainforest. Is this a realistic – or a utopian -- idea? Rory Carroll reports.
Colombian peasants have fled armed groups seizing land in a campaign of killing and intimidation. The paramilitaries aim to profit from lucrative – and legal -- oil-palm plantations, write Oliver Balch and Rory Carroll.