Issue Oct 05-11 2022: Colombia was the fourteenth nation of 24 to ratify the Escazú Agreement. The agreement provides for access to environmental information and guarantees access to justice for defenders of the environment.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: The deputy minister for mining in the Dominican Republic, Miguel Ángel Díaz, has cited that only 1% of the island’s territory is being used for the exploitation of minerals.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: In 2021, a group of 15 authors published an article about the search for the existence of intact ecosystems characterized by the diversity and flourishing of animals and plants in habitats untouched by humans.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: Left-wing leaders in Latin America have a complicated history with the environmental policies they claim to promote.

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.