About 200 families in El Espave, on the banks of the Bahia de Chame, a large bay, work in the production of mangrove charcoal, which they sell to pizzerias and restaurants.

The Mexican biologist and professor of Ecology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Aurora Gaxiola, has dedicated her area of study to Chilean forests, particularly the metabolism of trees.

President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree presented by industries that exploit salt marshes on the coasts of Brazil to further capitalize off Permanent Environmental Protection Areas (APPs).

Panama is a “carbon negative” country.

Guillermo Lasso, Ecuador’s president, proposed to over 120 world leaders that debt be exchanged for environmental conservation and announced the formation of a new marine reserve in the Galápagos.

Major floods from Colombia’s west coast are threatening the biodiversity of amphibians in the zone, La Mojana.

While on an official trip to Colombia, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the United States will launch a regional pact to reduce deforestation throughout the Amazon.

On Wednesday, October 13th, the Brazilian senate approved a bill to amend the Forest Code, which authorizes municipalities to define the area of protected land around riverbanks.

A report from 2018 called Let Each Drop Count: An Agenda for Water Action laid out plans for how countries can appropriately handle water crises.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that important changes need to be implemented to keep the planet’s temperature below the critical threshold of 1.5ºC for warming.