Salvadoran green advocates have long warned that their country’s popular young president, 41-year-old Nayib Bukele, would encourage an extractive model of economic development and, even ......
Since January of last year, a pair of park rangers in Uruguay have managed to monitor a puma (Puma concolor) with camera traps set up ......
Costa Rican lawmakers on Feb. 1 voted to keep the first regional environmental treaty in Latin America and the Caribbean off the legislative agenda, effectively ......
International demand for environmentally friendlier agricultural products is making its presence felt in Argentina, where big soybean producers, processors, traders and input suppliers are joining ......
Avian flu is decimating seabird populations on South America’s Pacific coast, especially in Peru, and has spread to marine mammals. Scientists say wildlife mortality is ......
Mexico this month banned the use of genetically modified corn in some foods, but backed down from a pledge to prohibit all transgenic corn imports ......
Barely a month after taking office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched his first major environmental crackdown, targeting illegal gold mining in the ......
Sara Omi Casama, a 35-year-old attorney, has devoted her career to defending the rights of women and youth in her native Ipeti Emberá community of ......