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. 

Thousands of parrots, monkeys, iguanas, toucans, turtles and other rain forest animals are kept as exotic pets in the Central American country, and experts say that’s not good. 

The Guatemalan government estimates that 200,000 families are threatened with starvation due to the deficit of rainfall in the rainy season.  A state of public calamity was declared for a month, during which the government aims to get the necessary assistance to the victims. 

Indigenous people in Peru’s northeastern Amazon are taking legal action to block oil exploration in a concession that overlaps with their territory. 

A coalition of NGOs denounced the Peruvian government’s acceptance of an environmental impact study submitted in support of the controversial Tía María mining project. 

Ombudsman Rolando Villena ordered compliance with a judgment demanding a reversal of the eviction notice for the indigenous communities in the timber area of Pando. 

A long heat wave produced by El Niño has caused damage to crops and water rationing in Central America and northern South America.  The Honduran government is preparing to authorize massive grain imports, and water shortages have caused a crisis in many parts of Colombia.