The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) says 2.3 million people across Central America potentially face severe hunger due to drought compounded by a particularly punishing El Niño weather cycle. 

Investors continued to dump shares in mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd. following the deadly dam burst at its jointly owned iron-ore mine in Brazil, even as the company sought to clarify responsibility for the disaster that claimed at least three lives. 

Brazilians are the most concerned about the environment according to a recent poll conducted in 40 countries worldwide. 

Academics in the jungle of Peru have innovated a way for people who previously had no electricity to have access to light at night using the resources readily available to them. 

Monsanto has been told to hold off on its operations with genetically modified seeds in the North American country until an official consultation with indigenous communities can be held. 

On Amazon Day, a British minister praised Brazil as a champion of climate change for tackling deforestation, though Brazil still loses forest the equivalent of the territory of Israel every four years.

The European Union held a seminar in Quito to discuss the impact of climate change in Ecuador and to optimize support for projects that seek to mitigate its effects.

President Morales and other leaders started planting trees in Oruro.

Structural rupture threatens a glacier in Lake Argentina’s ecosystem.  The glacier is currently acting as a dam between the majority of the body’s water mass and a smaller offshoot of the lake. 

Drought in Nicaragua has led locals along with domestic and foreign Red Cross officials to turn to new forms of irrigation in order to beat the lack of rain.