A five-year moratorium has been proposed on pineapple production in Costa Rica; climate change scenarios include intense droughts and floods, as well as a rising sea ​​level on the coast.

The key to controlling invasive lionfish threatening artisanal fisheries in the Caribbean may be eating them. 

The very painful disease, transmitted by mosquito, arrived less than a year ago in the Americas, where it has spread from the Caribbean to Central America and South America, infecting more than a million people.  The United States has already registered some cases.  

The Amazon will soon welcome a 325 meter tall tower that will be a tool to monitor climate change in one of the largest rain forests in the world. 

A newly protected marine area in Brazil will be roughly the size of Uruguay. 

Government says environmental preservation contributes to the stability of the Amazon, and ensures that rules over land ownership are respected. 

The World Bank says that due to rising sea levels and recurring storms, the beaches in most Caribbean nations have started to disappear. 

The Environment Ministry warned the Dominican-Venezuelan mining and construction company (DOVEMCO) to comply with its commitment to environmental improvement at the Las Mercedes bauxite mine, in Cabo Rojo, Pedernales province (southwest). 

The crisis between the federal government and the state of Sonora, arising from the environmental impact of the operations of Grupo Mexico, escalated with the intervention of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who announced that he was sending a special commission to investigate. 

A plant in São Paulo produces about 500,000 mosquitoes a week to help annihilate Aedes aegypti, the principal vector of dengue. It is the first factory in the world of its kind. Brazil is the country most affected by the disease.