Brazil’s biggest meat processors, among them JBS, the world’s largest, are drawing scrutiny for allegedly continuing to buy cattle raised in illegally deforested areas of ......
In 2002, residents of La Oroya, one of Peru’s most polluted cities, petitioned the country’s Health Ministry to protect them from the toxic emissions of ......
Colombia’s decision to relax a restriction so coastal communities can legally fish 15 species of shark and stingray has divided environmentalists and local communities over ......
South American agricultural and government leaders are ramping up their criticism of a European Union (EU) regulation aimed at ensuring that European imports of seven ......
Under President Xiomara Castro, Honduras is trying to crack down on questionable land-use decision-making by past administrations. The government’s recent action to preclude further mining ......
Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader’s recent decree creating a marine reserve and expanding an existing one has made his country the Caribbean’s first nation to ......
As they fight their country’s unprecedented epidemic of dengue fever, Brazilian health authorities are promoting nationwide use of biotech tools that go beyond the more ......
Patricia Rodríguez is an international optical gas imaging (OGI) analyst and advocate for Earthworks, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit that promotes the protection of people and ......
