Issue Sep 17-23 2025: After three years of hard work, Chile’s Cerro Castillo National Park, located in the region of  Aysén, has been added to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (UICN) Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas.

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: The state-owned company is a leading agricultural company which advocates adopting a methodology criticized by experts and rejected by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Marita Vargas Cardozo is following her family’s legacy of chestnut farming in the Peruvian Amazon. As a result, she helped found the Madre de Dios Organic Chestnut Collectors Association (ARCOMAD).

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: In the Colombian Amazon, an Indigenous association decided to terminate early a carbon credit sales project it signed with a multinational company because conservation goals were not met and profits were not transparent. Today, their forests remain at risk from deforestation and illegal economies.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: The ministers who make up the Consejo de Ministros de la Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD), of which Panama is the pro tempore president, held a session to review “progress and challenges of key initiatives,” according to official information.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: According to Panama Canal administrator Ricaurte Vásquez, the hydraulic pressure issue causing navigation problems in the waterway is the result of urban water consumption and not Canal operations.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: The UCR (Unión Civica Radical) bloc in Córdoba’s City Council presented a survey revealing the existence of 300 open-air garbage dumps in the city—three times the number that is officially acknowledged by the municipality.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: The Huánuco region of the Amazon has experienced an increase in illegal mining activity in recent years, driven by a global demand for gold. This mining has had a devastating effect on the Yuyapichi River within the region.

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: The Nueva Italia-Puerto Breu highway, a nearly 200-kilometer road network that runs through the Ucayali region, has become a transit zone for timber trafficking, illegal coca leaf cultivation, and drug trafficking to Brazil.

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: Ahead of the COP30 climate summit, slated to take place in Belém, Brazil, a widespread consensus among environmental leaders has emerged that the accords reached at such events ultimately have little impact in the long run; there simply have been too many promises made and not enough action taken.