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Latin America in 2025: Conservation promises collide with crime and extraction

Mie Hoejris Dahl 31 Dec 2025

Mexico is inflating its climate spending by billions of dollars. Here’s how.

Maxwell Radwin 11 Dec 2025

Across Latin America populist regimes challenge nature conservation goals

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Dec 2025

In Guyana and Suriname, offshore oil and environmental interests clash

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Dec 2025

Suriname’s plan to capitalize on carbon: Q&A with President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons

Maxwell Radwin 4 Nov 2025
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

MPs across Latin America unite to stop fossil fuels in the Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 9 Oct 2025

Guatemala closes oil field, increases security in Maya Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 5 Sep 2025
A depiction of a gas flare in Putumayo, Columbia. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Despite pledge, Colombia still has ways to expand Amazon oil exploration

Maxwell Radwin 29 Aug 2025

15 years after the BP oil spill disaster, how is the Gulf of Mexico faring?

Liz Kimbrough 21 Apr 2025
oil spill river

Colombia’s top oil company concealed environmental damages: Investigation

Mie Hoejris Dahl 20 Mar 2025

Ecuador must improve conditions for uncontacted Indigenous communities, human rights court rules

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2025
On February 12, activists and riverside residents posted on Guajará Bay in Belém, the host city for this year’s UN climate conference COP30, with banners saying ‘President Lula, don’t trade the Amazon for oil’. Image © Eliseu Pereira / 350.org

Lula pushes oil drilling at mouth of Amazon despite climate risks

Sarah Brown 21 Feb 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Ecuador’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 5 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

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