Colombian flower sales wither in US
Sales of Colombian cut flowers are expected to fall in the United States this year due to a reduction in the country’s consumer spending, changing climate patterns and an increase…
Sales of Colombian cut flowers are expected to fall in the United States this year due to a reduction in the country’s consumer spending, changing climate patterns and an increase…
Colombia announced on Tuesday that it will take part in the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity. Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2006, the year-long celebration of biological…
Bogota’s fire department, in a joint operation with the Civil Defense and Aviation authorities, managed to extinguish five of the six fires that threatened the south-eastern outskirts of the Colombian…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe addressed the UN Climate Change Conference Thursday. He demanded serious action not “rhetoric” from his fellow delegates. “This meeting needs agreements, ambitious goals, verification tools and…
The Nevada de Cocuy ice cap, Colombia’s largest, is shrinking by 25 metres in length and 25 centimetres in thickness every year due to climate change, revealed environmental experts Monday.…
Authorities predict that Colombia’s current drought will be particularly severe due to the “El Niño” effect, while water rationing has already begun in several regions. According to a report released…
Colombia’s production of cocaine dropped by 39% in 2009, according to a report presented Wednesday by the U.S. Ambassador to Bogota, William Brownfield. The cultivation of coca crops fell by…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced he will attend the United Nations (U.N.) Climate Change Conference in Denmark next week. The President’s attendance at the global summit in the Danish capital…
Colombia will request resources to protect its vegetation and will ask industrialized nations to finance programs to help the Andean nation adapt to the effects of global warming at a…