BELIZE CITY, Belize (AP) — Belize is considering new offshore drilling regulations that could open nearly the entire coast to exploration and exploitation, environmental groups have warned, calling it ...

Reports earlier this year that the government of Belize intended to open up iconic marine protected areas to offshore drilling met with widespread opposition. The new ban, approved on December 1, ...

BELIZE CITY, Belize – Belize is considering new offshore drilling regulations that could open up nearly the entire coast to exploration and exploitation, environmental groups warned this week, calling ...

Belize stopped the exploration for oil in its waters as of Dec. 29, 2017. Environmentalists and local businesses opposed a 2016 plan to begin wider oil exploration around Belize, halting those plans ...

Global outcry leads to reversal on oil exploration. The longest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere has received a reprieve from seismic surveying, WWF has learned. Officials in Belize agreed to ...

Opening up almost the entire length of Belize’s 180-mile-long coastline to oil exploration and exploitation has environmentalists very worried. They consider the proposal a threat to Belize’s vital ...

From space it just looks like a dark blotch, a circular blemish on an otherwise smooth blue surface off the coast of Belize. The spot is actually a 124-meter sinkhole, a UNESCO heritage site known as ...

WWF, Oceana and other members of the Belize Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage welcome move to stop damaging oil exploration activity in and around the Belize Barrier Reef World Heritage site.