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Humboldt penguins in Peru. Image by Víctor Bautista via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Chile’s denial of Dominga port project is a just energy transition victory and lesson (commentary)

Daniel Gajardo 24 Jan 2023
puma

In Patagonia, a puma’s life is decided by political borders

Ryan Biller 7 Dec 2022

In Chile, drought and human expansion threaten a unique national park

Michelle Carrere 17 Nov 2022

‘They paid for it with misery’: Q&A with Chile dam critic Jose Marihuan Ancanao

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022

Dam construction ignites Indigenous youth movement in southern Chile

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022
Penguins in the Antarctic.

Fish-feed industry turns to krill, with unknown effects on the Antarctic ecosystem

Francesco De Augustinis 19 Oct 2022
A man fishing in Brazil

Putting a price on water: Can commodification resolve a world water crisis?

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 30 Sep 2022

A new method assesses health of Chile’s headwaters, and it’s not good news

Liz Kimbrough 30 Sep 2022

Chinese investment in Latin America plagues people and nature: Report

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2022

Fires threaten vital peatland in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego

Maxwell Radwin 7 Feb 2022

Fighting a Chile mining project with science: Q&A with biologist Maritza Sepúlveda

Michelle Carrere 10 Jan 2022

Chile’s burrowing parrot marks 35 years of a slow but successful recovery

Alejandra Olguín 24 Nov 2021

Green light for mining project raises red flags for Chile penguin reserve

Michelle Carrere 8 Nov 2021

Enhancing biodiversity through the belly: Agroecology comes alive in Chile

Constanza Monterrubio Solís 30 Aug 2021

In Chile, a prickly coalition tries to bring a salt flat back to life

Michelle Carrere 17 Aug 2021

Chile’s marine protected areas aren’t safe from its salmon farms

Michelle Carrere, Vanessa Romo 19 May 2021

Researchers rush to understand kelp forests as harvesting increases

Michelle Carrere 22 Apr 2021

Patagonia’s blue whales besieged by hundreds of boats, study finds

Michelle Carrere 26 Mar 2021

Rewilding public lands in Patagonia and beyond: Q&A with Kris Tompkins

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Mar 2021

Illegal fishing: The great threat to Latin America’s marine sanctuaries

Michelle Carrere 5 Mar 2021

The controversial hunt for a multibillion-dollar treasure in a Chilean park

Barinia Montoya 12 Feb 2021

A Chilean archipelago rivaling the Galápagos fends off invasive species

Barinia Montoya 26 Nov 2020

500 years of species loss: Humans drive defaunation across Neotropics

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Sep 2020

Chilean authorities eye controversial Cruz Grande port project

Michelle Carrere 25 Mar 2020

Chile: Expedition to the end of the world, where humpback whales are thriving

Barinia Montoya 20 Mar 2020

Chile’s biosphere reserves get supersized, but protection isn’t a given

Michelle Carrere 16 Mar 2020

In Chile, scientists seek the cause of blue whales’ mystery skin lesions

Michelle Carrere 2 Mar 2020

Unsung Species: One of Earth’s rarest land mammals clings to a hopeful future (commentary)

Joel Berger with Alejandro Vila and Cristobal Briceño 28 Feb 2020

Fiscal meltdown at Easter Island park drives rift among islanders

Michelle Carrere 6 Feb 2020

What’s at stake after Chile cancels its hosting of COP25?

Michelle Carrere 1 Nov 2019

The tragedy of the fishermen of Ventanas, ‘the Chilean Chernobyl’

Michelle Carrere 29 Oct 2019

Scientists emphasize disease control in booming aquaculture sector

Michelle Carrere 18 Oct 2019

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