Upon his arrival to the region of Puno President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, known as PPK in Peru, promised that the viability of a new project to decontaminate Lake Titicaca would be announced within 100 days. The planning of the project was prioritized so that the government would be able to announce the viability of the

After an agreement between the National Electric Company of Bolivia and the Italian company Geodata on July 27, President Evo Morales has been supporting their plans to design and build a hydroelectric project in El Bala and El Chapete.

According to a study jointly headed by the United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), and the Latin American Association for Integration (ALADI), climate change will disproportionately affect the agricultural sector, threatening Latin American and Caribbean food security.

According to the United Nations Environmental Mediation Program, 30% of the trash produced daily in Panama City, some 700 tons, will wind up contaminating the nations’ oceans.

Since 2009, when Rio de Janeiro was announced to host the Olympics, Brazil went from having a prosperous economy to a recession, in which it has had to deal with the pollution of its waters, as well as the Zika virus.

PPK wants to liken Peruvian environmental standards to those of Canada and Chile.

The mountain ranges of Volcánica, Chila, La Raya, Huanzo and Chonta are the most vulnerable to climate change. Their ice caps do not surpass 6 km and their extinction is inevitable as per the National Authority of Water.

Photographer and cinematographer, Ricardo Gomes reveals images of biodiversity in Guanabara Bay that many had thought were lost.

With conflict already erupting in some parts of the country, and threatening to break out in other parts, Colombia’s water shortage during the drought is proving to be multi-dimensionally, life threatening. 

The expulsion of another environmentalist from the Central American country of Nicaragua came last week, after the shock of several similar episodes that occurred recently.