Environment

The movement opposing the memorial claims that the government is pushing aside necessary investigative measures to determine why exactly the building collapsed. 

Spanish actor Javier Bardem went down to the depths of the Antarctic Ocean in a Greenpeace submarine to help produce a campaign promoting the creation of the world"s largest protected marine area.

The brutal cold that has chilled a good part of the northeastern US this weekend, with temperatures often significantly below zero, will begin to moderate at the beginning of the week, according to the latest weather reports.

Mexican researchers are developing methodologies for calculating the monetary value of natural and environmental resources, the National Council on Science and Technology (Conacyt) said Friday.

The cold wave breaking low temperature records in the US in recent days continues spreading across the country and has taken at least 11 lives in the past 24 hours, local media reported on Wednesday.

At least 78 tucuxi dolphins have been found dead in the past 17 days in Sepetiba Bay, located in Rio de Janeiro state, threatening the survival of one of Brazil"s most endangered marine mammals, environmentalists said Wednesday.

Parts of northern and central Mexico will experience frost, snow and temperatures below minus 5 C (23 F) from the same mass of arctic air that is covering much of the United States, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) said Wednesday.

After more than a century, tortoises are once again being born on the Galapagos Islands after local rats were exterminated with poison, a process that required the temporary removal of local birds to prevent them from also being poisoned.

The president has paraphrased the Antiquities Act (1906) at his convenience to reduce the size of two national monuments and grant permission for the exploitation of the lands.

Nebraska regulators have approved the last stretch necessary for TransCanada to conclude the route of the Keystone XL pipeline through the state, giving Trump his second victory in a week.

TransCanada Corp. has announced that its original Keystone pipeline has spilled approximately 795,000 liters of crude in Marshall County (S.D.), just days before Nebraska takes a decision on the future of the oil pipeline network set to expand.

The COP23, attended by 25,000 participants from 200 countries, started on the 6th and will close on the 17th. One of the dominant slogans has been denouncing the decision of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to abandon the Paris Agreement.

An important report in the United States has shown that Climate Change is getting worse, and this week we could be the only country to be left outside the international collaboration to do something about it.

California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in the counties affected by the blazes.