Right-wing presidents are proliferating in Latin America, a trend that in June reached Colombia and—if a recently concluded ballot count holds—also Peru. (See related articles—Pages ......
Seeds are planted for a new effort to protect Mexico City’s Xochimilco agricultural wetland system and the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), the iconic aquatic salamander endemic ......
A flesh-eating worm that ripped through Central America and Mexico over the past three years was detected in June in the southern United States, threatening ......
Right-wing criminal defense lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella won Colombia’s presidential runoff on June 21, paving the way for a political U-turn that will likely ......
Peruvian environmental and human rights advocates this month sensed hard work ahead as the vote-count following the country’s June 7 presidential runoff showed right-wing candidate ......
Severe droughts have been occurring so frequently in the Amazon Basin in recent decades that the forest may not have time to recover before the ......
Brazil has unveiled a National Bioeconomy Development Plan (PNDBio) aimed at making sustainable use of the country’s ample biodiversity a major focus of economic development ......
In 2019, EcoPetrol, Colombia’s state-controlled oil company, announced a pair of projects to pilot fracking—the extraction of oil and natural gas through hydraulic fracturing. Both ......
