Issue Sep 21-27 2022: The Vice Minister of Environment, Sergio Federovisky, denied that the Luján landfill project had any “anomalies.”

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: In Peru, the areas in the high Andes are at a high risk from melting glaciers, which various experts across the world have identified as a direct consequence of climate change.

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: The Mexican National Guard is to protect Áreas Naturales Protegidas (ANPs) as the possibility of organized crime poses a threat to the environment.

In La Paz Bay (Baja California, Mexico), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has initiated a program that sees 196 temporary employees deployed to clean and maintain ecosystems in the bay that are part of the whale shark’s habitat.

Iván Duque of Colombia was recently named the director of the Concordia Initiative, a program designed to advocate for preservation of the Amazonian region.

Plastic pollution is overwhelming some of Central America’s largest bodies of water.

Issue Sep 07-13 2022: The Chilean Army owns a large part of the water rights in the area, and in the last ten years the Colina’s flow has decreased by 85%.

Issue Sep 07-13 2022: The discussion surrounding Brazil’s natural resources is not one that is limited to environmental degradation, but to the future of big agrobusiness.

Issue Sep 07-13 2022: The government of Venezuela’s failure–or unwillingness– to regulate its own air pollution over the last 30 years has led to a drought of information on the air quality of one of Latin America’s most polluted countries.

A report compiled and released by the Amazonian Network of Socio-environmental and Georeferenced Information (Raisg) has asserted that the Amazon “finds itself at a point of no return” after losing rainforest equivalent to the landmass of Spain or France in the last twenty years.