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.

Pig farms are one of the main economic assets in the Yucatán peninsula, but a Greenpeace report claimed that dozens of pig farms in the Yucatán peninsula commit multiple infractions against the environment and health of residents.

Giant kelp, a species of macro-algae distributed around the world, is of great importance to fishing grounds and forms marine forests that house one of the richest and most productive ecosystems in the world.

Hamilton Mourão, vice president of Brazil, explained that the Armed Forces are combating fires and deforestation.

Any ecosystem depends on the preservation of the biodiversity it offers and of the interactions between the various living species within it.

The arrival of the pandemic put a brake on the unsustainable socio-environmental life that we previously led.