According to the United Nations Environmental Mediation Program, 30% of the trash produced daily in Panama City, some 700 tons, will wind up contaminating the nations’ oceans.

Since 2009, when Rio de Janeiro was announced to host the Olympics, Brazil went from having a prosperous economy to a recession, in which it has had to deal with the pollution of its waters, as well as the Zika virus.

PPK wants to liken Peruvian environmental standards to those of Canada and Chile.

The mountain ranges of Volcánica, Chila, La Raya, Huanzo and Chonta are the most vulnerable to climate change. Their ice caps do not surpass 6 km and their extinction is inevitable as per the National Authority of Water.

Photographer and cinematographer, Ricardo Gomes reveals images of biodiversity in Guanabara Bay that many had thought were lost.

With conflict already erupting in some parts of the country, and threatening to break out in other parts, Colombia’s water shortage during the drought is proving to be multi-dimensionally, life threatening. 

The expulsion of another environmentalist from the Central American country of Nicaragua came last week, after the shock of several similar episodes that occurred recently. 

Though under pressure from international buyers to reduce the amount of antibiotics they put into their fish, salmon producers in Chile intensified their use of the substances in 2015 from the previous year. 

July 1st marks the beginning of the fishing season in Peru, mainly for the anchoveta, a species related to the anchovy. The Ministry of Production announced a limit of 1.8 million metric tons, but this comes as a surprise since the Instituto del Mar del Peru (IMARPE) has not issued its report on the biomass

The marine residents of San Salvador have found themselves in a sticky situation.