MercoPress of Montevideo reported that a labor appeals court in north-central Argentina ruled that the construction of a Monsanto plant is unconstitutional, halting work on the site.

El Espectador of Bogotá wrote that the CBERS -3, the satellite that China and Brazil recently launched, has cameras for remote monitoring that can significantly improve observation of the deforestation process in the Amazon. 

In Colombia Reports of Medellín Andrew Wight reported that the European Union has pledged $410,000 for a biodiversity project promoting a Colombian “natural treasure.” 

Inside Costa Rica of San José wrote that the peccary, a pig-like mammal known locally as a “chancho de monte,” is a species that lives in Costa Rica and which,

Maria López Conde wrote in The Rio Times of Rio de Janeiro of torrential rains that have “wreaked havoc in the city and state of Rio de Janeiro, flooding streets, metro stations and closing airports.

Javier Salinas Cesareo wrote in La Jornada of Mexico City that at least 30 illegal homes have been demolished in the ecological reserve of the Sierra de Guadalupe, municipality of Ecatepec, Mexico State. 

La Republica of Lima reported that President Ollanta Humala of Peru wants to be able to say, and keep saying, that “surf’s up.”  

So noted Estado de São Paulo.  After four consecutive years of decline, deforestation in the Amazon is increasing once again.  

Inside Costa Rica of San José reported that Nicaragua described Costa Rica’s construction of a road on its border parallel to the Rio San Juan as an “environmental nightmare”

In El Universo of Guayaquil Amparito Rosero reported that officials in Ecuador worry that a “plague of prawns” may destroy the ecosystem Yahuarocha Lagoon, though local people enjoy fishing for them.