According to data collected by the U.N., the average Chilean produces 9.9 kilograms of E-waste per year. The study also found that 81% of the waste is dumped into unknown locations.  

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has suspended gold mining activity across more than 247 million acres of protected land in the south of the country.

A thin layer of ash covers the crops, pastures, and forests to the west and northwest of the volcano Cotopaxi.

The government announced the creation of a special task force to develop a plan for the situation facing Honduras, with the hope of reducing potential damage due to El Niño. 

The plight of a Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle that biologists found with a plastic straw stuck in its nose highlights the need to reduce the use of the synthetic material, since millions of tons of plastics are dumped in the oceans each year. 

Ash has fallen in coastal areas, while Cotopaxi is still producing ash at a constant rate. 

The worst drought in more than a century has forced the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) to reduce cargo limits, lowering the maximum allowable draft of ships passing through the inter-oceanic waterway beginning in September.   

There are some who think they have bad luck, or that God strikes us with natural phenomena from time to time, as part of Chile’s “crazy geography.” But there is another, “less theological,” explanation, and such natural disasters could be avoided if Chileans take appropriate action. 

The crisis of the water supply for São Paulo continues to be quite serious, though little publicized. 

Activists are demanding action to control the massive depletion of nature reserves, while the government says there is no illegal activity.