September 2025

Argentina

Green worries on rise as Argentina ramps up fracking

Environmental and social-advocacy groups are denouncing the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, now taking place on the shores of an artificial lake that provides drinking water ......

Costa Rica

Coral reef recovery project taking a community tack

With coral reefs increasingly threatened by climate change, pollution and more, Costa Rica is engaged in a new community-based coral-propagation initiative aimed at bolstering coastal ......

Brazil (Free Read)

Three-state animal trafficking crackdown in Brazil

Authorities in September cracked down on animal-traffickers in three southeastern Brazilian states, rescuing over 800 wild animals—some of them members of species threatened with extinction—and ......

Bolivia

Metal-refining pollution prompts backlash in Bolivia

In the Bolivian highlands municipality of Viacha, residents from 61 communities staged a takeover of the mayor’s office on Sept. 1 to protest the activities ......

Mexico

Mexican agrochemical ban sets ‘low bar,’ critics say

A Mexican ban on nearly three dozen pesticides and herbicides that took effect in September will have little practical effect because it omits some of ......

Around the Region

Three nations pledge joint protection of Maya Forest

Belize, Guatemala and Mexico in August agreed to jointly protect and restore the Maya Forest, an area of some 5.7 million hectares (14 million acres) ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Perspective from two nations on the rising toll illegal mining is taking in the Amazon basin

Rising world gold prices have spurred the expansion of illegal gold mining throughout the Amazon River basin, with criminal gangs and ordinary citizens seeking livelihoods ......

Q&A

Amid Amazon drying and U.S. backtracking, Nobre calls COP30 crucial

Carlos Nobre, a Brazilian expert on climate-change impacts in the Amazon region, is a distinguished scientist at the University of São Paulo’s Institute of Advanced ......