Systema Solar: sowing the seeds of social consciousness

Systema Solar's new video carries a strong social and environmental message. Photo: Systema Solar Systema Solar are not known...

Environmental costs mounting but EPM pushes forward with controversial dam project

An early estimate has been made today into the environmental damage caused by closing the floodgates to troubled dam Hidrotuango. In a press release...

Irish activists call for end to Cerrejón mine’s human rights abuses

Cerrejón Mine, La Guajira. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Campaigners based over 8000 km away from Colombia are voicing their concerns in...

Crisis Hidroituango: Troubled dam continues to wreak havoc on Cauca river

Puerto Valdivia, photo above from August 2018, has remained in a constant state of red alert since April last year and has now seen its river slowly...

Constitutional Court bans recreational hunting

Recreational hunting is becoming a thing of the past after the Constitutional Court's recent judgment. Photo courtesy of Pixabay Colombia’s...

Cauca river recedes as Hidroituango dam closures threaten environmental catastrophe

Water levels have receded in the river Cauca following the closing of two floodgates at Hidroituango dam. Photo by Arjun Harindranath The Cauca...

Felt the ground tremble? Colombia’s recent earthquakes explained

Nevado del Huila Volcano. Image courtesy of @sgcol - Twitter. Last Tuesday, January 22, the city of Bucaramanga, Santander was rudely awoken at...

The last straw

There’s plenty of ways that you can reduce your plastic consumption, one of which is saying no to straws. The bad news: Around 13 million tons of...

Heal the world

Arhuaco spiritual leader, el mamo Lorenzo Seuny Izquierdo Arroyo, speaks about his mission to create a greater consciousness towards the planet. In...

Brightly-colored frogs illuminate Colombia’s battle against animal trafficking

[caption id="attachment_33561" align="alignnone" width="696"] O. Lehmani. Photo courtesy of Martin Bauert, Fundacion Zooligico de Cali[/caption] A...