‘They paved paradise and put up a parking lot’
Folk singer Joni Mitchell sang those lyrics way back in 1970. But, sadly, today a private university is replacing paradise with a parking lot in the hills above central Bogota.
Folk singer Joni Mitchell sang those lyrics way back in 1970. But, sadly, today a private university is replacing paradise with a parking lot in the hills above central Bogota.
Colombia is one of the leading performers when it comes to combating climate change, but fails to be recognized as such, according to the recently released Global Green Economy Index…
Bogota conservation authorities plan to create a bio-diversity corridor to preserve ground water and natural plant species in what would be the largest urban ecological park in Latin America.
More than 120,000 hectares of Colombian land were deforested last year, the majority of which occurred in the Amazon region, according to the Colombian government’s first annual report on deforestation.
The first electric bus made in Colombia has been denied license plates for not fitting any existing category of — oh irony — gas emission levels.
British oil giant BP and farmers from across Colombia began a legal battle in a UK court on Wednesday in one of the largest environmental cases in history.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday suggested an initiative to recuperate the wildlife and environment following decades of armed conflict.
The president of Colombia’s state-owned Ecopetrol has announced the oil firm will process licenses for the use of fracking technology, saying that the company has a great interest in using the…
The controversial drilling technique for extracting large amounts of deeply buried natural gas known as “fracking” has irreversibly arrived in Colombia.