EVENTS Brazil’s national museum gutted by fire A huge fire devastated Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro on the evening of 2 September. Many of the archaeological finds and historical memorabilia — some […]
By El Salvador’s ministry of environment and natural resources: Concept note for U.N. Decade of Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 initiative proposed by El Salvador with the support of countries from the Central American Integration System […]
You know you’re doing a good job as a drug dog when a cartel puts a price on your head. That’s just all in a day’s work for Colombian National Police dog Sombra, which […]
Deforestation is mushrooming in the Brazilian Amazon, according to Imazon. Imazon’s data shows deforestation hit 1,169 square kilometers in June 2018, the highest level since the NGO began monthly tracking in April 2007. While […]
Climate change has helped melt nearly a fifth of Colombia’s mountaintop glacier cover in just seven years, the government said Thursday. The surface area of its six glaciers has shrunk from 45 square kilometers […]
In the forests surrounding Río Abiseo National Park, in the Peruvian Amazon region of San Martín, a burgeoning chocolate industry is gaining traction. After dedicating more than twenty years to the cultivation of coca […]
As in other Latin American countries, in recent years China has been a strong investor in Argentina. The environmental impact and economic benefits of this phenomenon, however, are a subject of discussion among local […]
One month after a federal judge ruled that the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) did not violate environmental law when it approved applications for oil and gas drilling in a sensitive area […]
RIO DE JANEIRO—After 40 years as the top oil- and gas-producing basin for Brazil, the Campos Basin is seeing its production decline as other basins vie for leading positions. Over the last four decades, […]
HAVANA, May 5 (Xinhua) — All around Cuba, construction cranes, dump trucks and workers in hard hats are busy working to convert the island’s coastal oases into tourism gold. At renowned Varadero Beach and […]
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