Issue Sep 04-10 2024: Smoke from fires in the Amazon has reached Montevideo, covering the city with ash particles and prompting health warnings.

Issue Sep 04-10 2024: Nine years after the largest seizure of wood of illegal origin from the Amazon to North America, there is a risk that the criminal process will expire in Peru.

Issue Sep 04-10 2024: Of the 12,200 wildfires reported in South America beginning on Sunday, September 8th, 69% were reported in Brazil.

Issue Aug 28-Sep 03 2024: Brazilian Ilan Cuperstein is the regional director for Latin America of C40, a global network of 96 cities that are joining forces to reduce their emissions and adapt to the environmental crisis facing the planet.

Issue Aug 28-Sep 03 2024: After a group of Just Stop Oil activists received the longest sentence ever imposed for non-violent protests in the UK, the question of whether or not civil disobedience should be labeled as vandalism or seen as a citizen’s obligation to protest against laws that are unjust has come up.

Issue Aug 21-27 2024: The Inter-American Development Bank found that only 5% of waste in Latin America is recycled. According to the Sistema de Información para la Gestión de Residuos Sólidos, 8.5 million tons of municipal waste are produced annually in Peru, but less than 80,000 tons of waste are “returned to the recycling chain.”

Issue Aug 21-27 2024: The Colombian Attorney General has staged a judicial intervention in the Chiribiquete National Park to protect it against deforestation.

Issue Aug 21-27 2024: The Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has condemned the landfill on the banks of the Marcos A. Cabral River in Nizao as an “ecological affront.”

Issue Aug 14-20 2024: The matamata turtle (Chelus fimbriata) faces significant threats due to illegal trafficking in South America.

Issue Aug 14-20 2024: Parque Nacional Natural Chiribiquete (Chiribiquete National Natural Park) is Colombia’s largest continental protected area, but also the most affected by deforestation, illicit crop growth, cattle ranching, and illegal roads.