April 2026

Brazil

Amid green concerns, Brazil moves to tap rare earths

On paper, Brazil is sitting pretty when it comes to rare earths. That’s because it is home to the second biggest deposits of the ......

Argentina (Free Read)

Pushback in Argentina after glacier law weakened

Argentine environmental organizations aim to enlist more than one million people in “the largest legal challenge in history,” the goal being to overturn recently approved ......

Mexico

Pemex undersea pipeline rupture sends oil to coast

For weeks, Mexican state oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) denied causing an oil slick that in March covered an estimated 250 square kilometers (97 sq. ......

Chile

Kast’s investment bent aids some green projects

José Antonio Kast’s inauguration in March as president of Chile clearly did not please green advocates. That’s because unlike his left-leaning predecessor, Gabriel Boric, Kast ......

Colombia

After Awá oil-case win, all eyes now on enforcement

Colombia’s Indigenous Awá people are preparing an ambitious plan to address the impacts of years of oil spills on their rainforest territory in southwestern Colombia. The ......

Around the Region

Illegal mining grows in the Amazon region

Illegal gold mining, a key driver of deforestation, is expanding on protected lands and Indigenous territories across the Amazon rainforest region, a recent report says. The ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Venezuela slow to study, address sea-level rise

For more than a decade, crisis-torn Venezuela has drawn world concern for its high levels of poverty, mortality and emigration. Despite U.S. claims that the ......

Q&A

First at home and now abroad, young campaigner still making a mark

Francisco Vera, a 16-year-old Colombian environmentalist, has been living in Barcelona, Spain, since 2021. That’s when death threats he received as a result of his ......