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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
A Loa water frog at the National Zoo of Chile. Photo by the Metropolitan Park of Santiago Parquemet

‘Don’t give up!’ The last known Loa water frogs produce 200 tadpoles

Liz Kimbrough 5 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, Alejandro Vila, 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

Chilean band Newen Afrobeat sings of a future it hopes to see

Erik Hoffner 10 Sep 2019

Having taken a toll in Chile, salmon industry arrives in Argentina

Michelle Carrere 25 Jun 2019
Fishing boats in Seno de Última Esperanza (Last Hope Sound), in southern Chile. Image by Robert Nunn via Flickr.

Chile pledges to make its fishing vessel tracking data public

Marianne Messina 31 May 2019

Meet the winners of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2019
A shark catch in Pucusana, Perú. Image courtesy of Oceana.

Weak governance undermines South America’s ocean ecosystems

Michelle Carrere 26 Apr 2019

Virus may have caused mysterious foot disease in Chile’s rare huemul deer

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2019

Latam Eco Review: Pumas hate disco and Ecuador’s newly described glass frog

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2019

Chilean law pits indigenous people against salmon industry

Michelle Carrere 20 Mar 2019

‘Like seeing a dinosaur’: Scientists locate mystery killer whales

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2019

Latam Eco Review: Scandal rocks famed Easter Island park and a freshwater crab discovery

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2019

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