A rainwater collection and fast-acting purification system from Isla Urbana becomes the winning solution of Softys Water Challenge and hopes to expand its efforts.

Despite having no environmental policy background for this function, a former agent of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN), André Heleno Silveira, has been appointed as the new head of Surveillance Coordination Intelligence in the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA).

Latin America and the Caribbean are fighting against the violence that national and transnational companies inflict on the rights and territories of indigenous communities, for the protection of all forms of life and towards the creation of a new paradigm focused on the respect of Mother Nature.

On August 21, the Green Climate Fund approved $28 million in financing for a project to be led by the Ministry of Environment and implemented by rural and indigenous communities.

The coronavirus epidemic has left its impact on all sectors of the global economy.

A public-private initiative will start installing 80 solar panels at basic health units.

After researchers warned of the widespread deaths of butterflies in the Atlántico department of Colombia, readers responded with a project to save them: “Granja El Solar de Mao.”

Saúl Alcántara Onofre expressed his discontent with the plans as it prioritizes “gray infrastructure” over restoring the historical plants and trees.

According to Ecuador’s Ministry of the Environment, a multidisciplinary team discovered thirty new species of marine invertebrates in the Galápagos Marine Reserve.

Approximately 100 Kyapós people who live in indigenous territory in the southeast of the Brazilian state of Pará blocked and caused congestion on the BR-163, an important road for the transport of grain to the port city of Miritituba.