August 2026

Peru (Free Read)

New Peruvian president braces for early test: El Niño

Just seven days after taking office, Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori stood in the bed of a pickup truck in the northern city of Piura to ......

Argentina

Biodiverse gulf is in path of oil and gas export route

Since 2011, the Argentine public has gotten used to the idea their country could become a major exporter of fossil fuels. The notion began taking shape ......

Peru

New environment minister pledges evenhandedness

Vladimiro Huaroc, new Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori’s choice as environment minister, has only been in office for a month. But he says his priorities are ......

Ecuador

River dolphins under pressure in Ecuadorian Amazon

New research suggests pink and gray river dolphins remain critically endangered in the Ecuadorian Amazon and may be under greater threat there than in any ......

Brazil

Ethanol power-plant engine being tested in Brazil

Engineers in Brazil are conducting the world’s first large-scale test of an ethanol-fueled thermoelectric-plant engine, and ethanol boosters forecast the engine will prove capable of ......

Around the Region

Backlash halts border barrier work in Texas’s Big Bend area

After causing an outcry, a U.S.-Mexico border-barrier project launched by the Trump administration in the Big Bend region of Texas is on pause. U.S. Customs and ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Green-hydrogen hopes nearing reality in Brazil

The recent start-up of a small, commercial-scale green-hydrogen plant has raised hopes that Brazil in the not-distant future will dramatically ramp up low-carbon production of ......

Q&A

Green advocate probes impact of Argentine oil and gas fracking boom

Ariel Slipak coordinates research for the Environment and Natural Resources Foundation (FARN), a respected Argentine nonprofit that has pursued litigation involving environmental protection and related ......