The mayor of Veracruz, Mexico, Fernando Yunes Márquez, has cancelled public cleaning services for government agencies and hospitals.

The German government announced that it will cut its aid to projects that protect the Amazon in Brazil due to the increase in deforestation that has occurred since the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president.

Costa Rica has had its environmental policies approved by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and takes progressive steps towards environmental improvements.

Blooms of sargassum, a rusty brown seaweed, have plagued the coasts of the Maya Riviera at unprecedented levels since 2018, causing genuine concern for scientists, hotels, tourists, and locals. 

Indigenous communities have inhabited the Amazon region for thousands of years. Today, their ancestry, values, and culture live on because of oral tradition.

Seven months into his term as president of Brazil, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro appears to be advancing the environmental destruction of the Brazilian Amazon and continues to deny the effects of his policies.

Although glyphosate has been at the center of many debates around the usage of chemicals on crops because of its effects on the environment and human health, it is important to note that all agrochemicals have an effect on these issues.

The senate passed a law on comprehensive waste management that, among other things, creates a tax on products that pollute the environment.

Over the past 50 years, Brazil has radically changed its role in the world in terms of food consumption.

The cultivation of salmon in the Patagonia region of Chile will likely lead to increased acidification and a decrease in oxygen levels in the surrounding ocean waters.