EcoAmericas - Latin American environmental news coverage

March 2022

Honduras (Free Read)

Castro acts on new, greener vision for Honduras

When Xiomara Castro donned Honduras’s blue-and-white presidential sash on Jan. 27, environmentalists might have been forgiven for assuming green issues wouldn’t get much play on ......

Region

IPCC calls for faster climate-change adaptation

Latin America is highly vulnerable to climate change and increasingly feeling its effects, but its adaptation efforts are spotty and lack reliable data on what ......

Costa Rica

Admired reforestation program facing headwinds

Costa Rica’s reforestation program has won accolades the world over. Launched in 1996, the so-called Payment for Environmental Services program, which taxes fuel and uses ......

Argentina

Renewable-power investment slows in Argentina

Despite experiencing strong renewable-power gains in recent years, Argentina has failed to generate significant new clean-energy investment, a problem that has kept the country heavily ......

Brazil

Reforestation by drone is being studied in Brazil

In Brazil, where legal and illegal land clearing have created a need for massive reforestation, a project is underway to determine whether Chinese agricultural drones ......

Around the Region

Uruguayan garbage might help power container ships

A joint Danish, Uruguayan and U.S. project aims to take 40% of the organic garbage generated in Uruguay’s two most populous local jurisdictions and convert ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Jaguar initiative targets habitat, humans

It is a quiet night on ranchland bordering southern Brazil’s Iguaçú National Park. The cattle ranch owner rushes out of his house, alarmed by a ......

Q&A

Medina in spotlight as Honduras pursues environmental agenda

For over a decade prior to last year’s elections, green issues got little attention on the Honduran campaign trail. Then came Xiomara Castro Sarmiento, who ......

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