The Nicaraguan authorities of the Territorial Government Rama and Kriol issued a statement denouncing the existence of a cattle ranch of more than two thousand manzanas (nearly 5,000 acres) within the Indio Maíz Biological Reserve.

Every year, Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humans use up the sustainable allotment of the planet’s natural resources for a one-year period.

This week marks the official start of a long anticipated sanitation project in two highly polluted rivers in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

In order to combat climate change, Latin America must promote public-private partnerships.

Cochabamba, a city in the center of Bolivia, is experiencing an environmental disaster due to the contamination of the Alalay Laguna.

Twenty fruit species that are native to the Amazon have commercial potential for consumption, pharmaceutical use, or cosmetic use, with many of them being popular “super fruits.”

The 20 rodents introduced from Canada to the southern tip of Patagonia in 1946 to supply the fur industry now number more than 150,000.

A small community of rural Peruvians gathered in Lima to protest contamination of their natural resources by mining activity.

For over twenty-two years the community of El Ingenio has lived in the rubble of a “polluted dump.”

Despite being home to some of the most naturally rich regions on the planet, Ecuador, a nation comprised of tropical islands to the west and the dense Amazonian rainforest to the east, is not immune to human induced ecological destruction.