In a ceremony in Germany the conservation group Sharkproject International awarded Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís the dubious honor. 

Chile will receive the largest donation of land in all of human history.

Ecuador will appeal the The Hague’s decision that dismissed the order of annulment on various arbitral rulings on a lawsuit filed by Chevron Corporation and Texaco Petroleum Company against the Andean country.

About 35 million cubic meters of forest biomass that are still in zones affected by Pine Bark Beetles will be extracted in the next two months, the government announced.

Twenty years have passed since the first Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) in 1995 in Berlin, Germany, which was created to prevent humans from dangerously changing the climate.

Thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores of Rio’s Guanabara Bay not far from where events are being held at this year’s Olympic Games, environmental officials said.

In Abu Dhabi, the Mexican President affirmed his country’s commitment to the environment and to reducing climate change.

New deserts are being created following a Colombian gold rush.

Activists say it threatens many species and vulnerable national parks. 

An environmental activist was killed in Yagen, a village on the Marañón River in northern Peru, in the province of Celendín, Cajamarca.