Uruguayan officials grow weary of the world’s leading paper producing company UPM’s expansion within the country as environmental concerns grow.

Climate change has doubled the number of natural heritage sites threatened by extinction, according to the Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN), which called for “urgent” measures on Monday.

When Costa Rica began taking steps to become carbon neutral by 2021, it was uncertain how the country would measure its progress or what tactics it would use to complete that goal.

Across Bolivia, inhabitants are experiencing on average a 31.2% loss of the drinking water distributed by the companies and cooperatives of the nine major cities, due to old pipes, bad and clandestine connections, waste, lack of meters, and theft.