October 2025

U.S.–Mexico

For some, border-area data center does not compute

Plans for a US$165 billion data center are stirring controversy in the Paso del Norte border area of southern New Mexico, El Paso, Texas and ......

Argentina (Free Read)

Argentine development attracts unwanted residents

In the early 2000s, a 1,750-hectare (4,300-acre) swath of low-lying land in the Paraná River flood zone just outside Buenos Aires began to be transformed ......

Panama

Future still unclear for Cobre Panamá copper mine

Once one of the world’s largest copper mines, Cobre Panamá has sat idle for nearly two years, with environmentalists warning that the government’s failure to ......

Colombia

Colombia struggles to rein in mercury pollution

On paper, Colombia has among the region’s toughest legal controls on mercury. Among them is a 2023 nationwide ban on all industrial use of the ......

Colombia

Compost project targets water-hyacinth spread in Andean lake

In the 1960s, when concerned Colombians sought to clean up Lake Fúquene, a high-altitude lake located 80 kilometers north of the country’s capital, they turned ......

Around the Region

Conservation initiative targets jaguar habitat in Paraná Basin

Environmental groups from four South American countries are organizing an ambitious initiative to spur ecological restoration of the Paraná River Basin, a 2.5 million square ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Controversial projects dog Lula on eve of COP30

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has set clear expectations for the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP30) his country is hosting in November. ......

Q&A

Ibama president rejects criticism that Lula has lost climate credibility

Rodrigo Agostinho, 47, is president of Ibama, the autonomous enforcement and licensing arm of Brazil’s Environment and Climate Change Ministry. Agostinho served as Environment Secretary ......