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.

Venezuelans began to report sightings of black oil off the coast of Golfo Triste around July 31. That oil has reached the Parque Nacional Morrocoy, threatening flora and fauna already in danger of extinction.

A new report, completed in collaboration by the Dominican Ministerio de Energía y Minas (MEM) and UN Environment, revealed elevated levels of pollutants in the air in the Dominican capital.

An international panel of scientists has been established in order to know the current state of the Amazon biome.

The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Fair-Trade Small Producers and Workers (CLAC) called on governments, civil organizations, and for international cooperation to protect and promote environmental sustainability in the economic recovery phase of the pandemic. 

Satellite data from the National Institute of Space Research (INPE) revealed that Amazon deforestation, caused by illegal logging, mining, and ranching, increased by 25% in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, when it broke all records since 2015.

In a statement issued by the Charles Darwin Foundation, scientists have observed a seven-gilled shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) and a six-gilled shark (Hexanchus griseus).