Medio ambiente

For the last three weeks, The Amazon has been on fire. These are five things you need to know about what is happening in Brazil.

The development of agriculture in Puerto Rico has been one of the biggest challenges in the country for decades. Today, it is an opportunity for the Island's recovery.

It's Friday night and you order a pizza - in an attempt to save the world, you recycle the box. Guess what?

In the U.S., 30 to 40 percent of the food supply is wasted. A new app looks to change that trend.

A firm in Chile won the prize for best innovation in Latin America.

These forests are of vital importance, sheltering the butterflies throughout the winter.

The project sets a low-emissions zone to help protect the health and wellbeing of its citizens.

With the last eruption that occurred in June and the current activity of the volcano, authorities are preparing for the worst.

Ranchers and representatives of NGOs met in Paraguay to discuss solutions for sustainable food production. 

The Mexican Sustainability Forestry Council is questioning the environmental benefits of current government actions. 

This agreement will help promote collaboration between the two countries in environmental technologies. 

With a gift of 2 million seeds and a $500,000 research grant from Starbucks, coffee growers in Puerto Rico look to the future of rebuilding the island’s coffee industry.  

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.