Heat waves in the northern hemisphere, ever-growing fires in the Amazon forest, and droughts in Chile are all part of an environmental situation that gets more and more complex.

The effects of the Amazon forest fires are being felt throughout Latin America.

Pablo José Negret, a Colombian at the University of Queensland in Australia has collaborated with organizations like the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Nature Conservancy to publish an article in Biological Conservation that seeks to decode the complexities that deforestation in the Colombian Amazon presents.

The Panamanian National Assembly created a Commission of Investigation to attempt to fix the deforestation problem in the province of Darién.

The mayor of Veracruz, Mexico, Fernando Yunes Márquez, has cancelled public cleaning services for government agencies and hospitals.

The German government announced that it will cut its aid to projects that protect the Amazon in Brazil due to the increase in deforestation that has occurred since the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president.

Costa Rica has had its environmental policies approved by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and takes progressive steps towards environmental improvements.

Blooms of sargassum, a rusty brown seaweed, have plagued the coasts of the Maya Riviera at unprecedented levels since 2018, causing genuine concern for scientists, hotels, tourists, and locals. 

Indigenous communities have inhabited the Amazon region for thousands of years. Today, their ancestry, values, and culture live on because of oral tradition.

Seven months into his term as president of Brazil, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro appears to be advancing the environmental destruction of the Brazilian Amazon and continues to deny the effects of his policies.