Last year Brazil lost significantly less tropical primary forest than in 2024—the result, conservation experts say, of fewer severe wildfires and improved forest-protection efforts under ......
Blanca García of Guatemala steers the lead vessel in a small fleet of outboard fishing boats cutting through the calm waters of Lake Güija, the ......
The replacement of native vegetation with agricultural areas in Brazil’s six biomes has caused an estimated loss of 1.4 billion tons of soil carbon, a ......
Countries dissatisfied with the plodding pace of world climate deliberations are newly optimistic following the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, an April ......
Two decades after Peru passed legislation to protect semi-nomadic Amazonian Indigenous groups that shun contact with the wider society, two new reports highlight growing threats ......
Controversy over a lack of public information on the environmental impacts of salmon farming has resurfaced in Chile as 13 salmon producers there fight efforts ......
Unusually warm water pooling in the western Pacific Ocean has triggered headlines warning of a looming El Niño that could rival some of the fiercest ......
If El Niño brings drier weather to Central America, forest fires will rise even higher on the region’s list of concerns. Land-use change, global warming and ......
Peruvian anthropologist Beatriz Huertas studies her country’s most elusive human inhabitants—semi-nomadic Indigenous people. She focuses in particular on those who live along the heavily forested ......
