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.

Environmentalists say Nicaragua’s Grand Canal will cause environmental havoc.

Thousands of protesters gathered in response to poor living conditions in southern Bogotá.

Managua was inundated in only two hours under heavy rainfall last weekend. The Nicaraguan capital’s expansion and construction has not properly countered both the natural environment and infrastructural weaknesses.