Issue Oct 01-07 2025: The province of San Ignacio, in Cajamarca, is the new center of illegal gold mining in Peru, boasting the active participation of Ecuadorian citizens in the operations given the area’s proximity to the border. Once known for its coffee plantations, San Ignacio, which follows the contours of the Chinchipe River, now

Issue Sep 24-30 2025: The results of an international study published in Nature Plants magazine have revealed that the size of Amazonian trees has increased by 3.2% every decade over the last 30 years.

Issue Sep 24-30 2025: The Río de la Plata owes its characteristic brown color to a phenomenon little known by the public, but fundamental to understanding the dynamics of the estuary: flocculation. Although sediments have been studied in Uruguay for decades, this is the first time that this process has been directly measured in these

Issue Sep 24-30 2025: The multi-party group of lawmakers from 44 cities across the country held its first “protocolaço” (protocol meeting), putting into motion bills to adapt schools to extreme weather events.

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: At a meeting of the United Nations on September 21, Colombia presented its goals with regard to its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) 3.0, as regulated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement.

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: After three years of hard work, Chile’s Cerro Castillo National Park, located in the region of  Aysén, has been added to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (UICN) Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas.

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: The state-owned company is a leading agricultural company which advocates adopting a methodology criticized by experts and rejected by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Marita Vargas Cardozo is following her family’s legacy of chestnut farming in the Peruvian Amazon. As a result, she helped found the Madre de Dios Organic Chestnut Collectors Association (ARCOMAD).

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: In the Colombian Amazon, an Indigenous association decided to terminate early a carbon credit sales project it signed with a multinational company because conservation goals were not met and profits were not transparent. Today, their forests remain at risk from deforestation and illegal economies.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: The ministers who make up the Consejo de Ministros de la Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD), of which Panama is the pro tempore president, held a session to review “progress and challenges of key initiatives,” according to official information.