As dangers of climate change continue to grow, the possibility for weather emergencies will simultaneously grow. In order to mitigate the potential devastation of these events, mayors in Nicaragua will soon implement risk management policies related to climate change.

The Santa Ana Country Club, expected to open in late 2018, has initiated a two-year reforestation initiative, called Ceiba, to improve passages for local fauna through forested areas between Santa Ana and the hills of Escazú.

Drastic cuts to the budget for regulatory environmental programs have given poachers a major advantage throughout Brazil.

Conserving the Amazon may be key to combating climate change.

While the Huaycoloro landfill in Lima is one of the largest energy recycling sources in the country (generating 10% of the country’s renewable energy), the dump in Trujillo is overflowing with trash and unsanitary conditions.

After a surfer from the United States lost a leg in a crocodile attack, the Environment Ministry put up Crocodile warning signs, which it claims, have decreased bad encounters with tourists. Yet now a “legal decision looms in a population control case.”

Despite the high potential for geothermal energy development in the region of Tacna in Peru, the Ministerio de Energía y Minas (Ministry of Energy and Mines, MEM) has not authorized companies to expand into the region.

2017 will likely mark a historic year of uncontrolled forest fires in Brazil, with nearly half concentrated in the Amazon region.

By 2050 there will be more plastic in the world’s oceans than fish according to the United Nations.

A little more than half of Colombia is covered by forests, making it the third country with the largest area of ​​forests in South America, after Brazil and Peru.