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.

Heavy rains, far above the average for the season, have caused destruction throughout Ecuador.

The sector of Cancharani in the Peruvian city of Puno is demanding the relocation of the municipal garbage dump.

In the dash to feed a ravenous customer base, Burger King buys hundreds of tons of soybeans annually.

The latest victims of climate change littered the scenic beaches of Costa Rica this past week, as wave after wave of dead anchovies bobbed in the surf of the Bay of Nicoya.

Navy and municipal authorities in the Colombian city of Orocué have extended security measures in an attempt to stem the illegal targeting of endangered pink dolphins.

Latin American countries have been taking the initiative in combatting climate change since before the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change held in Paris.