The key to controlling invasive lionfish threatening artisanal fisheries in the Caribbean may be eating them. 

The very painful disease, transmitted by mosquito, arrived less than a year ago in the Americas, where it has spread from the Caribbean to Central America and South America, infecting more than a million people.  The United States has already registered some cases.  

The Amazon will soon welcome a 325 meter tall tower that will be a tool to monitor climate change in one of the largest rain forests in the world. 

A newly protected marine area in Brazil will be roughly the size of Uruguay.