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The Los Pelambres mine.

In Chile, a copper mining project tainted by environmental damage sues 32 locals

Michael Lieberherr Pacheco 16 Sep 2024

China accepts U.N. recommendations to improve environmental conflicts in Latin America

Maxwell Radwin 23 Aug 2024
Indigenous leader Paulo Paulino Guajajara shows a bullet shell in 2019.

Mongabay video screening at Chile’s Supreme Court expected to help landmark verdict in Brazil

Karla Mendes 31 May 2024
The James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green credentials of electric vehicles come under fire

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 23 May 2024

Chile to protect some salt flats, but selection lacks data, scientists say

Barinia Montoya 22 May 2024
Producing an AI chip requires 10-15 times more energy than making a standard chip.

Critics fear catastrophic energy crisis as AI is outsourced to Latin America

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 21 Mar 2024

For threatened Andean condors, garbage dump offers a buffet of risks & rewards

Logan Rance 7 Mar 2024

A highway project in Chile threatens one of the world’s longest-living tree species

Michelle Carrere 15 Feb 2024

New environmental rules for Chile’s protected areas rile the salmon industry

Barinia Montoya 9 Feb 2024
A guina.

Conservationists aim to save South America’s super tiny wild cat, the guina

Petro Kotzé 22 Jan 2024
Fishing boats in Seno de Última Esperanza (Last Hope Sound), in southern Chile. Image by Robert Nunn via Flickr.

Chile again rejects Constitution rewrite; experts say no big loss for environment

Boris van der Spek 9 Jan 2024

In Chile’s far south, scientists record an island’s quickly shifting ecology

Michelle Carrere 30 Nov 2023
Digital screens in New York's Times Square.

The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 2 Nov 2023

Chile government faces backlash after U-turn on copper mine

Boris van der Spek 20 Jun 2023

In Chile, a wildlife rehab center deals with the aftermath of worsening fires

Boris van der Spek 12 Jun 2023

Home to rare corals, a Chilean fjord declines in spite of protection

Barinia Montoya 21 Apr 2023

Chilean chinchilla faces new threat from copper mine near national reserve

Michael Lieberherr Pacheco 20 Apr 2023

National corridor project aims to save Chile’s endangered huemul deer

Sean Mowbray 6 Apr 2023

Chile communities defy the desert by capturing increasingly scarce water

Michelle Carrere 4 Apr 2023

For Argentina’s ruddy-headed goose, threats grow while population shrinks

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 23 Mar 2023

New MPA Tic-Toc Golfo Corcovado a safe haven for blue whales in Chile

Michelle Carrere 21 Mar 2023

In Chile’s Patagonia, another salmon plant angers water defenders

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2023
A Peruvian diving petrel in flight.

After decades away, rare Peruvian seabird nests on island freed of invaders

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Mar 2023

Fishing communities create marine refuges to protect Chile’s biodiversity

Michelle Carrere 16 Feb 2023
Drone view of a salmon farm.

Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords

Francesco De Augustinis 26 Jan 2023
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

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