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Hydrogen storage tanks are visible at the Iberdrola green hydrogen plant in Puertollano, central Spain, March 28, 2023.

Locals fear Chile’s new port project for green energy will disrupt ecosystems

Aimee Gabay 11 Jul 2025
The Andean cat is a rare and endangered species highly specialized to life in the high Andes. It’s estimated that around 2,000 mature individuals, living in fragmented populations, are spread very thinly over a vast alpine expanse in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2025

Indigenous divers on Chile’s island restore seabed to protect seafood sources

Ana Cristina Alvarado 24 Jun 2025

Red tape fouls a coastal community’s fight to protect fjords in Chilean Patagonia

Ana Cristina Alvarado 23 Jun 2025

Signs of hope as elephant seals rebound from avian flu in remote Chilean fjord

Barinia Montoya 4 Jun 2025

Chile draws road map for peace in Mapuche land conflict, but concerns remain

Maxwell Radwin 21 May 2025

New study maps the fishmeal factories that supply the world’s fish farms

Edward Carver 15 May 2025
Corporations have devastated the livelihoods of fishing communities like Odimodi, by spilling crude oil, discharging toxic effluents, and gas flaring. Image via the Coalition for Human Rights in Development.

How communities in sacrifice zones suffer environmental injustices in Mexico, Chile, Nigeria and Indonesia (analysis)

Daniela Sepulveda and Angélica Arellano 9 Apr 2025

Lithium Triangle mining may strain water sources more than expected, study says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Apr 2025

New Zealand blocks tighter trawling rules at South Pacific fisheries meeting

Edward Carver 28 Feb 2025

After LA, fire crisis reaches Latin America — from Mexico to Argentina

Astrid Arellano 17 Feb 2025
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024

As lithium mining bleeds Atacama salt flat dry, Indigenous communities hit back

Barinia Montoya 20 Dec 2024

In Chile, discovery of shallowest red hydrocoral forest yet surprises scientists

Rocío González Trujillo 5 Dec 2024
The First Environmental Court’s inspection of the Tilopozo wetlands, and the La Punta and La Brava lagoon systems, among others.

Chilean Indigenous association participates in key study for lawsuit against mining

Barinia Montoya 28 Oct 2024

Debate over Chile’s fisheries law exposes industry influence on fish management

Francisco Velásquez 25 Oct 2024

Fishers & scientists unite to restore seaweed populations on Chilean coast

Barinia Montoya 18 Oct 2024

In the Pacific depths, an underwater mountain hosts a bonanza of new species

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2024
The Los Pelambres mine.

In Chile, a copper mining project tainted by environmental damage sues 32 locals

Michael Lieberherr Pacheco 16 Sep 2024

China accepts U.N. recommendations to improve environmental conflicts in Latin America

Maxwell Radwin 23 Aug 2024
Indigenous leader Paulo Paulino Guajajara shows a bullet shell in 2019.

Mongabay video screening at Chile’s Supreme Court expected to help landmark verdict in Brazil

Karla Mendes 31 May 2024
The James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green credentials of electric vehicles come under fire

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 23 May 2024

Chile to protect some salt flats, but selection lacks data, scientists say

Barinia Montoya 22 May 2024
Producing an AI chip requires 10-15 times more energy than making a standard chip.

Critics fear catastrophic energy crisis as AI is outsourced to Latin America

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 21 Mar 2024

For threatened Andean condors, garbage dump offers a buffet of risks & rewards

Logan Rance 7 Mar 2024

A highway project in Chile threatens one of the world’s longest-living tree species

Michelle Carrere 15 Feb 2024

New environmental rules for Chile’s protected areas rile the salmon industry

Barinia Montoya 9 Feb 2024
A guina.

Conservationists aim to save South America’s super tiny wild cat, the guina

Petro Kotzé 22 Jan 2024
Fishing boats in Seno de Última Esperanza (Last Hope Sound), in southern Chile. Image by Robert Nunn via Flickr.

Chile again rejects Constitution rewrite; experts say no big loss for environment

Boris van der Spek 9 Jan 2024

In Chile’s far south, scientists record an island’s quickly shifting ecology

Michelle Carrere 30 Nov 2023
Digital screens in New York's Times Square.

The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 2 Nov 2023

Chile government faces backlash after U-turn on copper mine

Boris van der Spek 20 Jun 2023

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