This photo of the Caribbean Sea taken in 2021 is the above view of the western side of Venezuela’s Paraguaná Peninsula. The smoke plume running across the middle of the image appears to originate at a gas flare (mechurrio) of the Paraguaná Refinery Complex. Credit: NASA By Margaret LópezCARACAS, Sep 18 2024 – The most visible part of gas flaring in Venezuela is the so-called “Monagas...

It has been 12 months since Hayk Harutyunyan, a 22-year-old photographer from Nagorno-Karabakh, cleaned his house for the last time and closed the door behind him for good. “Every morning, before I open my eyes, I imagine how wonderful it would be to wake up at home. But once again, I am not there…” Harutyunyan […]

Farmer Crescencio Hernández checks seedlings in his chinampa in the San Gregorio Atlapulco collective land, in the Xochimilco municipality, in the south of the extensive metropolitan area of Mexico City. Credit: Emilio Godoy / IPS By Emilio GodoySAN GREGORIO ATLAPULCO, Mexico , Sep 18 2024 – Mexican Crescencio Hernández orders radishes, herbs and lettuce for shipment to an alternative market...

By Michelle Muschett and Sabina AlkireNEW YORK / OXFORD, UK , Sep 18 2024 – Political polarization, the climate emergency, organized crime, migration, and low economic growth currently dominate the public debate in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and rightly so. However, there is a significant structural challenge to human development and democracy itself that, along with inequalities,...

Joseph Loree, who lives in the oil-rich Lokichar area of Turkana in northern Kenya, keeps a few goats due to frequent droughts. Governments in the Global South are spending billions of dollars subsidising industries harming the climate, such as the one in Lokichar. Credit: Maina Waruru/IPS By Maina WaruruNAIROBI, Sep 18 2024 – A report examining corporate capture of public finance is accusing...