The Gran Chaco, South America’s second-largest forest after the Amazon, has been steadily replaced by croplands and cattle ranches for decades. Now...
Author - Ricky Jennings
A new gold rush is underway in Latin America—only this time around, the bounty is white. With its sprawling salt flats, the region is rich with a new...
Standing amid his yerba mate plants, Paraguayan farmer Eger Báez is not breaking a sweat despite a mid-morning temperature approaching 30°C. That’s...
Uruguayan Customs authorities are to deploy three new state-of-the-art scanners for border control, Economy and Finance Minister Azucena Arbeleche...
Caracas – Campesino collectives took to the streets of Caracas on Monday to demand justice for Carlos Bolívar. Bolívar, a longtime activist and...
Bogota, Colombia – Berna Nastacuas Pai held a dangerous job as a member of a patrol that guards his Indigenous Awa community in southern Colombia...
Since 2019 large parts of Argentina and neighboring countries have been reeling under drought conditions with the last four months of 2022 receiving...
Last month, the leaders of Argentina and Brazil announced plans to discuss the introduction of a new common currency for trading in South America—a...
THE rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rose by 150 per cent in December from the previous year, according to staggering new figures...