Environment

Haiti’s government has raised its official death toll from last month’s devastating earthquake to 230,000, communications minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue announced this week — up sharply from the 212,000 figure the government had been citing just days earlier. The new number continues a steady, grim climb since the January 12 earthquake first struck. In the…

International energy companies are racing to tap Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale formation, one of the largest untapped shale gas and oil reserves in the world — and they’re running directly into sustained resistance from the Indigenous Mapuche communities whose ancestral lands sit on top of it. Vaca Muerta, located in the Neuquén Basin in Argentine…