The recently launched “Blue Pampa” project is a ten-year “strategic initiative” that aims to research Argentina’s South Atlantic resources in five different areas to ensure conservation and management, while reinforcing Argentine claims of sovereignty. 

Severe drought in northern Colombia has left the area in a state of emergency.   The situation in the municipio of Riohacha, northern Colombia, has left a trail of destruction and has been declared a “public disaster” by its Mayor Rafael Ceballos Sierra. 

The Peruvian Finance Ministry said that the government has approved a legislative package that is to provide about 3 billion soles ($1.07 billion) in investments for the prevention of natural disasters. 

Brazil has authorized the use of the genetically modified version of the mosquito Aedes aegypti in its fight against Dengue Fever, which infected 1.5 million Brazilians last year and caused 545 deaths. 

In Costa Rican agriculture, coffee production is responsible for 25% of carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.  In order to reduce this percentage, a new project aims to help 800 coffee farmers reduce their carbon emissions without affecting production and competitiveness. 

At least 12 people were killed and 2,000 houses destroyed by a fire that devastated parts of the Chilean port city of Valparaiso, as authorities evacuated thousands and sent in aircraft to battle the blaze. 

Most models developed by scientists indicate that El Niño will be back in a few months, with increased subsurface water temperatures in the tropical Pacific to levels that typically precede the arrival of this phenomenon. 

Six months ago Claudio Latorre, a palaeoclimatologist at Chile’s Universidad Católica uncovered the oldest archaeological remains in northern Chile, 13 thousand years old, in the Atacama Desert. 

A fleet of 22 “green” buses will change the scene in Bogotá, even as glaciers disappear and forests come under increasing pressure in Colombia. 

Chile ranks high among countries with indigenous socio-environmental conflicts, largely due to major forestry plantations in Southern Chile, in the heartland of Mapuche territory.