Twenty years have passed since the first Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) in 1995 in Berlin, Germany, which was created to prevent humans from dangerously changing the climate.

Thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores of Rio’s Guanabara Bay not far from where events are being held at this year’s Olympic Games, environmental officials said.

In Abu Dhabi, the Mexican President affirmed his country’s commitment to the environment and to reducing climate change.

New deserts are being created following a Colombian gold rush.

Activists say it threatens many species and vulnerable national parks. 

An environmental activist was killed in Yagen, a village on the Marañón River in northern Peru, in the province of Celendín, Cajamarca.

The alert represents intensified measures to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito. 

There are 3,904 kilotons of E-Waste produced in the region and that figure is expected to reach 4,800 by 2018. 

The annual deforestation in Latin America was reduced to less than half since 1990.  While every year Latin America and the Caribbean lose 2 million hectares of forests, the rate of loss is slowing. 

Floods in Southern Brazil forced thousands from their homes. The climate phenomenon El Niño that is affecting the region is one of the strongest in recorded history.