Argentina’s Ministry of Agriculture, Cattle Raising, and Fishing has created the Board of Environmental Agroindustrial Competition to address growing concerns over climate change.

A drought in Paraguay led to lower water levels along the Paraguay River. A viral video raised public awareness of the refuse along the bank of the river, leading to citizens demanding action and support from authorities.

Less than two months after the forest fires in the Amazon, Brazil faces new ecological disasters, and the consequences are already having an effect.

The Ortega regime promises to reduce emissions of 11 million tons of carbon dioxide over the next five years with its plan to conserve forests in the protected areas of the Caribbean.

“Thick mud descended like a tsunami,” recalled fireman Leonard Farah in a new book listing accounts of the 2015 Mariana disaster, released under the title Além da lama (Beyond the mud), as the 4th anniversary of the disaster came around on the 5th of November.

A legal project aimed to reduce the amount of plastic contamination in the environment has passed through parliament in Costa Rica.

The massive oil spill in the Northeast of Brazil, their largest environmental disaster on the coast and one of the largest in the history of the country, is leaving volunteers contaminated as they strive to clean up the mess.

Over the past 40 years, 56,396 hectares of mangrove swamps have been lost in Ecuador alone.

The parliamentary group of the National Action Party (PAN) of Mexico presented strategy changes to the Secretary of Natural Resources and the Environment to tackle the issues surrounding the illegal buying and selling of exotic birds. The group shared that potentially 95% of birds endemic to Mexico are in threat of extinction.

Brazil’s government held a military operation against deforestation in the Amazon which raises concern among civilians.