Many countries around the world are operating at only half or minimal function due to the coronavirus crisis, and they’re encountering an unexpected benefit of these changes- cleaner air.

According to the IPCC’s fifth assessment report on climate change, adaptation and mitigation are the two complementary strategies that represent the best way to tackle climate change.

“For 2030, it is estimated that at least 27% of the city populations will be vulnerable to total water scarcities,” said Claudia Vázquez, the director of the NGO organization The Nature Conservancy (TNC).

Minas Gerais is Brazil’s key source for gold mining.

The environmental impact statement issued by two mining companies excluded an aqueduct project and supply negotiations from their report.

Colombia’s Ministry of Environment requests an intervention from the national government for the betterment of air quality in the nation’s capital, Bogotá.

The vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MINAGRI) asked the director of the National Forest and Wildlife Service (SERFOR), Luis Alberto Gonzales-Zúñiga, to resign in the midst of the implementation of policies against illegal logging.

The Guairá Province of Paraguay has rolled out a new ecotourism plan in order to promote conservation of the nation’s forests.

The National Disaster Risk Management Unit (Ungrd) announced that over 800 conflagrations have been recorded so far in 2020, affecting more than 29,000 hectares.

Ibama, the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, has already made headlines a couple of times this year, especially in relation to issues with the Bolsonaro administration.