November 2024

Region

Financing is still a question after biodiversity summit

The main question looming over the recently concluded United Nations Biodiversity Summit in Cali, Colombia, was a perennially vexing one: financing. In short, it was ......

Region (Free Read)

Can green progress and reality blunt Trump impacts?

With U.S. President-elect Donald Trump set to take office in January, Latin American environmentalists and policy experts are bracing for the expected fallout, particularly a ......

Mexico

Mexican monitoring group gets NASA’s attention

A collaboration with NASA to spur Earth observation as a tool for achieving sustainable-development goals focused in November on the work of Guardián Forestal, a ......

Region

World climate talks disappoint region once again

Latin American and Caribbean negotiators came away disappointed from November’s U.N. climate talks, having failed along with conferees from other developing regions to secure what ......

Brazil

Brazilian law aims to boost biofuel supply and use

Brazil has approved legislation intended to increase its already considerable output of automotive biofuels and to begin commercial production of environmentally friendlier aviation fuels. The ......

Around the Region

Green fallout is feared from Chinese-owned port in Peru

Peruvian officials are calling a huge new Chinese-owned deep-water port in their country a “game changer” for the economy, but some observers say its impacts ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Machine learning tool could aid manatee counts

A collaboration of field biologists and computer engineers in Panama aims to create a sound-based counting tool for the endangered manatee, which often lives in ......

Q&A

Deane hopes other young funders will back large-scale conservation

Anne Deane was born in Paris, grew up in Boston and lives in London. Her father, Disque Deane, a major U.S. real estate developer, died ......