Issue Jul 01-31 2026: Costa Rican lawmakers have given initial approval to legislation that would allow authorities to pursue illegal mining and other serious environmental offenses using organized-crime laws. The Legislative Assembly approved the proposal in first debate with 53 votes.

Issue Jul 01-31 2026: Mexico will invest 2 billion pesos in 2026 to combat sargassum in Cancún, Tulum, and the Mexican Caribbean using new sargassum-collection vessels and coastal barriers.

Issue Jul 01-31 2026: As global demand for lithium, rare earths, and other critical minerals accelerates, Brazil is moving to establish a national strategy for developing its vast mineral reserves.

Issue Jun 17-30 2026: Over the past three decades, in Cedeño, located in the department of Choluteca on the Gulf of Fonseca, hundreds of people have been evacuated due to large storm surges that have gradually destroyed hotels, homes, restaurants, a school, a health center, a soccer field, and other beachfront infrastructure. According to official

Issue Jun 17-30 2026: Peru has expanded its biometeorological monitoring network in the Andean region to anticipate climate effects that threaten the world’s largest alpaca population.

Issue Jun 17-30 2026: The Ministry of Environment issued a statement reporting that officials from the National Council for the Fight Against Deforestation and Other Environmental Crimes (Conaldef) and the Ministry had received death threats following the capture of a criminal network that allegedly deforested and seized land in Mapiripán, Meta.

Issue Jun 10-16 2026: For the Dominican Republic, climate change is not just another environmental issue, but a challenge putting to the test the nation’s competitiveness, health, security, and governance. Recent scientific reports are clear: Latin America and the Caribbean, due to their geographical and socioeconomic conditions, face heightened exposure to droughts, heavy rains, hurricanes,

Issue Jun 10-16 2026: In Latin America, climate change and operational risk factors with new technologies increase vulnerability to blackouts, especially with the arrival of an El Niño phenomenon.

Issue Jun 10-16 2026: Uruguay’s Environment Minister, Edgardo Ortuño, said the ministry will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into environmental controls and push for a new environmental-crimes law, among the priorities he outlined ahead of the budget review (Rendición de Cuentas) that the Executive will present to Parliament on June 30.

Issue Jun 03-09 2026: Costa Rican forests play a key role in mitigating global climate change. Between 2013 and 2023, these forests retained roughly 9.8 million tons of carbon, the storage being especially concentrated in the country’s humid and very humid forests.