Latin America News - Ecology & Environment

	February 26, 2016 Recent PLOS research at the food, water, energy nexus While the roots of ecology may have focused on how many animals there were or, where those animals were located, ecological theory and methods are now increasingly informing public policy and resource management. One of the latest results of this trend is ecological work in the study of the food-water-energy-nexus.
	February 26, 2016 Latin America Green News: Monarch numbers rise, oil leaks in Peru's Amazon, renewables dominate energy auctions Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America.
	February 23, 2016 How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease A growing body of scientific evidence shows that the felling of tropical forests creates optimal conditions for the spread of mosquito-borne scourges, including malaria and dengue. Primates and other animals are also spreading disease from cleared forests to people.
	November 23, 2015 How a Forest Responds to the Threatening Heat of 2100 Wood, 40, is responsible for the daily operations of this first-of-its-kind experiment, where scientists are cranking up the heat by 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) to see what happens to the saplings of palm and tabonuco and small plants growing here. This is as hot as our planet may be in 2100 if nations emit carbon dioxide at present-day rates. The scientists want to see whether tropical forests will thrive in that changed world.
	October 23, 2015 Waiting for the Canal A controversial $50 billion coast-to-coast canal project connecting the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, sanctioned by Nicaragua’s Sandinista government and funded by a Chinese investment company called HKND, threatens to displace the people of Playa Gigante, plus anywhere between 27,000 and 100,000 other Nicaraguans. The residents will lose their homes, and their modest fishing boats will make way for 200-foot-wide shipping leviathans.