Containing nearly 10% of the Amazon rainforest, Colombia is exploring multiple approaches to slowing and eventually putting an end to deforestation.

Companies throughout Chile have been fined for flouting environmental law, with the mining and energy sectors hardest hit.

An expedition entitled Colombia Ciencia y Paz (“Colombia Science and Peace”) brought together fourteen people from different fields of expertise to explore a part of the country that remained under the rule of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for half a century.

Only a third of the active volcanoes in Mexico have maps that detail the risks and dangers of an eruption.

According to a recent study carried out by Nature Magazine, the Amazon River and its surrounding regions are at risk of falling into a vicious cycle brought on by rampant deforestation and damaging human activity.

The number of jaguars, the largest felines on the American continent, has now reached a critical number of only 300 in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil.

After developing 300 studies, Colombia has established one of its most unknown public policies, the Programa Nacional Para la Conservación de las Serpientes Presentes en Colombia, which is directed to study all the existing snake species living throughout the country.

Environmentalist, academic, and politician from Catalonia, Spain, Joan Martínez Alier visited Bolivia recently and chatted about the importance of searching for alternatives to mining.

A 1992 Panamanian law, promoting reforestation over a 25-year period, will see its benefits expire at the end this year.

Washed up onto the shores of the Uruguayan resort town of Punta Colorada, two large dead sea turtles were discovered recently.