The Costa Rican government announced that three government ministries will take over the administration of the INBioparque. 

According to data provided by the Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF) of Chile, the number of hectares of vegetation affected by fires has decreased.

The Argentina is one of the 30 countries that pollute the seas with the most plastic waste. 

The loss of Guatemalan forests is bad, but the loss of the Amazon is more ominous. 

From March 1 through June 30, 2015, Costa Rica, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama will suspend fishing for lobster in Caribbean waters.

The practice of “growing and harvesting” rainwater through the “cultivation” of lakes in Peru took first prize in a contest targeting climate change. 

Chile struggles to change its relationship with water, while Brazil suffers draught and the long-term effects of mismanagement.  

According to plans by the Chinese company HKND Group, 106.8 kilometers of the planned interoceanic Grand Canal of Nicaragua will go through Lake Cocibolca or Lake Nicaragua, as it is also called.  The largest freshwater body in Central America, the lake is known as the “Galapagos of Central America” because of its great biological diversity. 

Residents of Itapé, in the Department of Guaira, claim that the sugar company Azucar Paraguaya SA (AZPA) dumps waste into the Tebicuarymí River, killing fish. 

Five active fires in La Pampa to the south and west of the Greater BA area involve thousands of hectares.