A conservation organization called Bosque Medicinal, which is made up of scientific researchers and members of the Gualaquiza community, has been promoting the curative properties of many plants that are endemic to southern Ecuador.

Due to constant climate change over the years as well as natural catastrophes, scientists investigate how much of it results from human action.

The Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, fined plantation owners and indigenous groups R$2,7 million, after confirming the controversial cultivation of genetically modified corn and soybeans on four indigenous reservations in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil.

Each year 13 million tons of plastic make their way into the ocean.

After signing the Paris Climate Accord in 2015, the Argentinian government announced it would develop a plan to combat and adapt to the effects of climate change.

Factors such as overfishing, climate change, and ocean acidification are continually decreasing coral reef beds.

Several vacant lots became playgrounds as local children were inspired to transform them into gardens and leisure areas in Lima.

The Fuego volcano eruption on Sunday, June 5, 2018, has left 25 people dead, more than 20 wounded, and over a million affected, in addition to nearly burying the entirety of the small village of El Rodeo, Escuintla and surrounding areas.

José Sarukhán Kermez, national coordinator of the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity in Mexico (CONABIO), warned that the ease of protecting the vaquita from extinction is declining and is additionally becoming more expensive.

Deforestation at the Atlantic Forest fell by more than 50% in 1 year, in Brazil.