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.

Fabiola Muñoz, Peru’s Environment Minister, opened the inauguration of the Bicentennial Pavilion 2021 with Peru’s new goal to create two marine protected areas in Peru’s waters at the third Latin American and Caribbean Convention for Protected Areas.

Six of the seven bills that have been seeking to protect freshwater reserves, mainly contained in the more-than-2000 glaciers in Chile, have failed.

Zalva, a new brand of bottled water made with 100% recycled plastic containers, will be distributed throughout Colombia and will allow resources to be reinvested in a way which conserves the land and mountain ranges.