05-17-2013 
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation has issued a series of practical recommendations to the top environment officials of Canada, Mexico and the United States to do more to move North America toward a sustainable energy economy. Read More
South American climate change think-tank launched
South America has got its first think-tank aimed at providing climate change knowledge to decision-makers to help them design tools tailored to local needs. Read More
North America: More condors die of lead poisoning
Since condors eat carrion, they ingest spent lead ammunition fragments as part of their diet. Lead poisoning is also suspected in the other four deaths. At least 38 condors have been killed by lead poisoning in Arizona and Utah. Read More
The Solar Impulse crosses United States
A solar-powered aircraft able to fly day and night on a mission to become the first aircraft to fly coast-to-coast across the United States without using a single drop of fuel. Read More
‘Window Socket’: Solar-Powered Plug Sticks To Window, Powers Anything
Stick it on any window — at home, in the office, car windshield, commuter train — where there’s decent sunlight, and the device automatically starts converting sunlight into electric energy. Read More
ESPECIAL REPORT: Three Years After the BP Spill in Gulf of Mexico Coast
April 20 marks the three-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which took the lives of 11 men and resulted in the largest oil spill in American history. BP, along with Transocean and Halliburton, are still in the midst of a civil trial held in New Orleans federal court over liability for the catastrophe. Read More
Profits vs. Disaster in Arctic Meltdown
Many eyes are turning north to the Arctic, some in horror at the rapid decline of a key component of our life support system, others in eager anticipation at the untapped resources beneath the vanishing snow and ice. Read More
Canada’s prime minister defends tar sands pipeline plan, saying oil will come into US anyway
A controversial oil pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast “absolutely needs to go ahead,” Canada’s prime minister said, and he warned that the oil will be transported through America one way or another. Read More
United States: Alaska town to vanish by 2017, report says
When it comes to the fate of the 350 residents of Newtok, Alaska, exile is inevitable. That’s because their coastal village, located about 480 miles west of Anchorage, is in the process of being washed into the Bering Sea. Read More
Mexico’s Popocatepetl Volcano Eruption Signals Dome’s Destruction (VIDEO)
The Popocatepetl volcano has erupted, with an explosion of lava and ash scattered over a large area around Puebla in central Mexico. Authorities have kept the volcanic alert at Yellow Phase 3. Read More
Jamaica Takes Aim At World Heritage List
Covering an area of 78,200 hectares, spanning sections of Portland, St Thomas, St Andrew, and south-east St Mary, the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park contains the largest area of primary natural forest remaining in Jamaica and is high in biodiversity. Read More
Mangrove Urban Park Bay Project is Approved in Panama
The Panama Bight mangroves are the most important intact mangroves in the world, in addition to being the most extensive in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The trees here are the tallest mangrove specimens in the Neotropics. Read More
135 bird species endangered in Venezuela
Venezuela ranks the seventh place of the list of countries with the highest biodiversity of birds, but this does not remove the enormous threat looming on creole birdlife of the total of 1,417 species in the country, 135 are endangered and little is done for them. Read More
Colombia to end use of animals in traveling circuses
The Colombian Senate’s Fifth Committee has approved a draft bill to end the use of animals in traveling circuses. The Bill has widespread public support as well as a number of Colombian public authorities, celebrities and organizations. Read More
In progress Law on Protection of Domestic and Companionship Animals in Ecuador
The project includes addition, specialized care (healthcare activities diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, ie create healthcare centers for animals), for pets and companionship, being necessary to refer domestic animal which is considered one who has been brought under human control and live with this. Read More
Continued deforestation in the Amazon may kill Brazil’s agricultural growth
Continuing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest could undermine agricultural productivity in the region by reducing rainfall and boosting temperatures, warns a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Read More
Devastating climate change in the Peruvian Andes
This latest study from Science found that glacial ice that took at least 1,600 years to form in the Peruvian Andes “has melted in just 25 years…the latest indication that the recent spike in global temperatures has thrown the natural world out of balance.” Read More
Bolivia leads the way in wetland protection
In addition to being the largest Ramsar designation to date, Bolivia now claims 14.8 million hectares of protected wetland, making it the leading Contracting Party out of 164 participating countries in terms of Ramsar site surface area. Read More
Epidemic of dengue increasingly aggressive in Paraguay
The dengue epidemic that plagues permanently to Paraguay is the most aggressive known by the country and still does not loom, recognized the Ministry of Public Health. Read More
In Uruguay march against mining and environmental pollution
Thousands of Uruguayans, hundreds of them on horseback, recently participated in the Fourth National March in defense of the Earth, Water and Natural Assets, in protest of open-pit mining which culminated in front of the Presidency. Read More
