Ecuador has pulled the plug on a groundbreaking plan to have outside donors pay to protect an oil-rich swath of the Amazon. The plan failed to draw anywhere near the financial support the country had hoped.
A group of women slipped past security on Thursday to climb Western Europe’s tallest building, the Shard in London. The six women are activists with Greenpeace, and they made the climb to protest Shell Oil’s drilling in the Arctic.
Peru’s president Ollanta Humala was elected in 2011 partly on a pledge to protect the environment. He’s declared a state of emergency in the Pastaza RIver basin, and gave an Argentinian oil company operating there three months to clean up.
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