A new Peruvian start-up to create a bio-friendly leather alternative has gained international attention. Martina Rua explored the company for La Nación of Buenos Aires.

The City Hall of Rio, through the Municipal Secretariat for the Environment, began reforesting the slope of Avenida Niemeyer, in the South Zone of Rio in the stretch that suffered landslides in April 2019 due to heavy rains.

The new environmental policy of the Mexican Secretary of Energy has raised concerns.

The fines for illegal devastation of the Amazon have been paralyzed since October 2019, reported Human Rights Watch in the same week that data showed that the forest suffered in April this year the greatest deforestation since 2008.

Every year, more than 7 million tons of solid waste are produced in Peru, but the majority was not recycled. Previously, waste segregation at home was encouraged, but on May 10, the executive branch passed Legislative Decree 1501, expanding the Solid Waste Management Law and making it mandatory.

Argentine economists discussed possibilities concerning the environment, healthcare, and education as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.

During WWI, many of Europe’s farmers were recruited into military service and farms were turned into battlefields. Because of this, the burden of food production fell on the USA, where citizens were encouraged to grow their own “victory gardens” so that more food could be sent to allies overseas.

Taking advantage of the quarantine, Mendoza, Argentina, is developing biking infrastructure and discouraging car use. Diminished traffic and efforts to socially distance have produced an increase in bike use.

Deforestation in the Amazon in April this year increased by 171% compared to the same month last year. That number is the highest ever seen in the past ten years.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised to review cases of possible permissions by the National Hydrocarbons Commission to authorize the use of fracking.