Although it has been 22 years since the first environmental sanctions were put into place in Panama, many inhabitants, and environmentalists in particular, are dissatisfied with the execution of these Penal Codes.

A recent fire and oil spill in Puerto Sandino, León, has left the environment deeply disturbed and the people worried for their futures.

Rising temperatures and longer dry seasons have contributed considerably to the decline in Peruvian water supply. These shortages are not only severely affecting the lower regions of the nation, but additionally continue to threaten the existence of reservoirs and agricultural productivity.

The Agricultural Department of the East (CAO), which combines 18 associations of farmers, fishers, and agro industrialists of Santa Cruz, reported losses of US $500 million.

More than 130 Humpback whales enter the Straits of Magellan every year to feed and rest for five months near Carlos III Island. 

27 million Latin Americans go to bed at night without having had enough to eat that day.

According to Corpamag some 10 tons of dead fish turned up in the Pajarales Swamp zone. 

Upon his arrival to the region of Puno President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, known as PPK in Peru, promised that the viability of a new project to decontaminate Lake Titicaca would be announced within 100 days. The planning of the project was prioritized so that the government would be able to announce the viability of the

After an agreement between the National Electric Company of Bolivia and the Italian company Geodata on July 27, President Evo Morales has been supporting their plans to design and build a hydroelectric project in El Bala and El Chapete.

According to a study jointly headed by the United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), and the Latin American Association for Integration (ALADI), climate change will disproportionately affect the agricultural sector, threatening Latin American and Caribbean food security.