Newly re-elected Rafael Correa of Ecuador appears to want to take on the mantle of ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. At take are Ecuador's shaking freedoms and the exploitation of natural gas reserves.

The peaceful Machiguenga people, indigenous to Peru, are cannon fodder for the Maoist 'Shining Path' narcoterrorists operating in Peru's jungles.

With an oil glut on its hands, Iran is faced with storing oil on its ships which wander the world seeking to sell cut-rate crude.

Foreign interests are involved in a hydro-electric project in the highlands of Guatemala. Indigenous people of the region have risen up against it, pitting them against a government with a history of violence.

A cooperative venture involving Spain, Portugal and their former colonies plans on providing solar panels and computers to 80,000 schools in Latin America.

Goldman Sachs's commissioned report detailed how large speculation in the oil futures market can affect the price of oil.

Energy Secretary Chu: The overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil; to build and strengthen our economy and decrease our dependency on oil.

Known for carrying green leaves as they march through tropical forests, leafcutter ants also cultivate underground gardens of fungi and bacteria. New PNNL research about the roles bacteria play in those gardens could eventually help scientists turn plants into biofuel.

Americans send nearly $500 billion overseas every year to foreign countries to buy the oil we need when we are quite capable of producing our own oil.

CO2 is a natural component of Earth's atmosphere and a key ingredient in photosynthesis. Without carbon dioxide all life on Earth would cease to exist.

A Catholic parish in Illinois incorporated native plants to enliven an important watershed, and also used innovative water saving and energy saving technologies.

A team of physicists including a researcher from the University of Michigan observed what's called the dynamical Casimir effect for the first time earlier this year. They essentially squeezed light particles from the vacuum of space.

Supermodel and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Gisele Bündchen has visited Kenya to experience firsthand the reality of energy poverty and to see how lives are being transformed in the East African country by making sustainable energy accessible to those not connected to the national grid.

Unplug, turn it off, clean it out. Put on your Stormy Kromer.

Michigan scientist Wei Liao is developing a portable wastewater treatment system that generates electricity and produces drinking water.

Highways and hydro-electric projects are exacting a great cost on the environment in Latin America where unique species of animals, plants and fish are endangered.

The Boko Haram, which is linked to Al Qaeda, killed at least four persons in the city of Geidam in Yobe State, Nigeria.

Reliable nuclear device to heat, power Mars Science Lab.

We send nearly $500 billion overseas every year to foreign countries to buy the oil we need when we are quite capable of producing our own oil.

Barefoot Power manufactures solar-power cellphone rechargers.