The oil spill at Equinor’s Bahamas storage terminal is estimated at 119,000 barrels, the Norwegian company said on Wednesday, more than a month after a massive hurricane...
The illegal wildlife trade is increasing all across Latin America, the first high-level conference on the issue in the Americas was told. After drugs, guns and human trafficking, wildlife...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...