Elyssa Pachico
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Working at InSight Crime, a think tank about organized crime in the Americas.

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For Disappearing Glaciers, How About a Whitewashed Solution?

Posted December 14, 2009 | 17:52:42 (EST)

Nobody at the Copenhagen summit is painting a very rosy picture right now when it comes to climate change. One man in Peru, however, would like to paint things a very different color: white. Literally.

With a $100,000 grant from the World Bank, Eduardo Gold plans to use...

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Should Mexico Welcome the Invasion of 'Frankencorn?'

Posted December 3, 2009 | 02:19:42 (EST)

Mexico's decision to start growing genetically modified (GM) corn is sowing nothing but trouble.

After the government lifted a nation-wide ban against transgenic maize last March, peasants in northern Chihuahua have threatened to burn plots of Monsanto and DuPont patented crops if necessary. On October 18, the Mexican chapter...

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