Issue Jun 14-20 2023: President Luis Lacalle Pou declared his dedication to the “Waste to Fuel” project, which promotes converting garbage from landfills in the city areas into fuel for ships, but acknowledged that progress has not been made as expected.

Issue Jun 14-20 2023: Peru’s Ministerio del Ambiente (Minam) declared a state of emergency in the locality of Negritos, due to the presence of hazardous environmental waste.

Issue Jun 14-20 2023: Sustainability is society’s ability to make responsible use of natural resources, without exhausting them or exceeding their renewal capacity, which is related to a good quality of life.

Issue Jun 07-13 2023: The provincial Executive announced that the creation of the first National Park in Catamarca, Argentina, is getting closer to becoming a reality.

Issue Jun 07-13 2023: The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, recently announced a new security plan for the Amazon.

Issue Jun 07-13 2023: One year after the brutal murders of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips, “jungle warriors” armed with bows and spears patrol the Amazon’s waterways in motorized canoes, on the lookout for illegal fishers, poachers, and traffickers.

Issue May 31-Jun 06 2023: On World Environment Day, an urgent need to protect the forests in the southern part of Mexico City was emphasized, calling for citizen action and participation in conservation activities as these forests are threatened by illegal extraction and urban expansion.

Issue May 31-Jun 06 2023: The Community Forest Management (CBM) proposal was co-created in 2000 by native communities of the Ucayali region and the non-governmental organization AIDER.

Issue May 31-Jun 06 2023: Popular Dominican destination city Cap Cana is focusing on prioritizing, respecting, and maintaining its biodiversity, so as to preserve the region’s natural riches.

Issue May 24-30 2023: Chile must confront its status as Latin America’s most pernicious environmental debtor, with the country having the dubious distinction of achieving the region’s earliest yearly instance of ecological overshoot.