Issue Nov 02-08 2022: New leftist president Gustavo Petro of Colombia, speaking at the COP27 event in Egypt, said that leftists in Latin America have not pushed hard enough on the climate crisis, and have resigned themselves to a future economy sustained by the exportation of oil and natural gas.

Issue Nov 02-08 2022: Congress has approved the inclusion of wildlife trafficking within the scope of the Law Against Organized Crime.

Issue Nov 02-08 2022: A recent report from the World Meteorological Organization stresses that greenhouse gases have reached 50% from their current level during 1990-2021.

Issue Nov 02-08 2022: Seven years after the “worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history,” not one of the 26 accused of causing it, have been convicted.

Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: Brazil, Colombia, and Peru are nations that border each other and thus share regions of the Amazon rainforest.

Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: On the global future of transportation, Brazilian expert Plinio Nastari has argued that developed countries are “heading down the wrong road” with electric vehicles because of the infrastructure required to support this new network of cars.

Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: At the inauguration of the C40 World Mayors Summit in Buenos Aires, representatives of more than one-hundred cities warned about the urgent need to reduce global warming.

Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: In recent years, tropical storms such as ETA and IOTA in 2020 caused complex situations in Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala that decreased economic growth and added to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amidst a global climate emergency, Chile has taken steps to become less reliant on harmful carbon-based energy, instead looking towards wind and solar power.

Scientists are hopeful that the low tides of the Paraná River will begin to recover with recently increased levels of rainfall.