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  • A tiger seen through the rotting grille of its cage, Joya Grande, Honduras.

    Animal welfare
    Narco folly: inside the crumbling Honduran zoo built by a drug cartel

    This collection of animals, many trafficked, was a status symbol and money-laundering scheme for the Cachiros syndicate. Now seized by the authorities, experts are attempting to improve conditions inside its crumbling cages
  • An armed man in fatigues and combat gear watches a pick-up truck burn

    Brazil
    The lawless mining gangs targeting the Amazon’s precious green energy minerals

    As demand for the tin ore cassiterite soars, special forces units of Brazil’s Ibama environment agency must play a cat and mouse game with the thousands of illegal miners pouring into Yanomami reserves
  • Man cycling across a bridge over a river in desert landscape in Mexico.

    Pollution
    ‘They’re waiting till we die of cancer’: 10 years on, Mexico’s worst mining disaster still poisons lives

    In the desert town of Ures, everyone lives under a shadow of ongoing sickness and hardship stemming from a waste spill in 2014. But they are losing hope of seeing justice
  • Large industrial buildings and car parks on a green plain

    Emissions
    Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay

    Protesters say recently approved tax-free datacentre will ‘provide nothing except toxic waste and greenhouse gases’
    • Thomas Devroy, of Arau village, looks out over the Essequibo region. The two countries' growing dispute over the oil-rich land has raised tensions across Latin America.

      Guyana
      Tensions rise as Maduro uses border dispute to build support ahead of Venezuela poll

    • Graffiti reading 'PCC' is written on a yellow wall in front of a church building

      The Amazon
      Crisis at Tres Fronteras: how criminal syndicates threaten Amazon’s future

    • Aviles Morphy stands among felled trees in the forest

      Honduras
      ‘Just give me 30 men and a few arms’: Honduran Indigenous groups ready to fight to save land

    • A collage of men in hard hats and oil rigs against a backdrop of a map of Mexico

      The Latin oil rush
      Mexico’s love affair with Pemex: will its bid to save the fallen oil giant block the shift to clean energy?

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In pictures

  • A woman cradles a baby alpaca standing on a rock in a dramatic Andean landscape

    Peru
    Hanging by a thread: Peruvian alpaca breeders’ way of life under threat

  • A woman with a paddle in her hand looks out from her small boat to the misty water with trees at its edge

    Mexico
    ‘Without them, the city would be lost’: the art of preserving Mexico City’s ancient floating gardens

    The Mexican capital’s Unesco-listed wetlands are being brought back to life by the Indigenous chinamperos, who are striving to overcome the effects of urbanisation and the climate crisis
  • Warao girls on their way home from school in Manaus

    Displaced people
    ‘Children were dying. We didn’t even have aspirin’: the Indigenous Venezuelans forced far from home

    Economic crisis has driven Warao communities from their traditional life in lush forest to a Brazilian slum
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Explore

  • Aerial view of the Mathias Velho neighbourhood in Canoas, a suburb of Porto Alegre, showing extensive flooding.

    Extreme weather
    Brazil is reeling from catastrophic floods. What went wrong – and what does the future hold?

    In the country’s south, up to half of the annual predicted rain fell in just 10 days – the third such event in a year. Experts say it is time to plan for a new normal
  • Geologist Maximiliano Rueda crouches on a dried mud beach next to dinosaur footprints

    Charles Darwin
    Darwin in Patagonia: tracing the naturalist’s route around the foot of South America

  • View of tree tops in the jungle

    Oil exploration
    ‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

  • Compo tech for SACC

    Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution

  • wood huts on cleared land in the middle of forest in Caroebe, Roraima

    Smallhold farming
    ‘My dream is to buy a piece of land’: the ‘outsiders’ farming at the Amazon’s last frontiers

  • A man on horseback flees an encroaching forest fire in Viña del Mar, Chile

    Wildfires
    ‘We are in an era of megafires’: new tactics demanded as wildfires intensify across South America

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People

  • 0Leonela Moncayo, 14, sitting in a red plastic chair.

    Fossil fuels
    ‘Just by breathing we are contaminated’:schoolgirls fight to extinguish Ecuador’s gas flares

  • A pregnant woman stands in front of two graves: one is painted black and white with a hand-lettered inscription, a wreath and a rickety wooden awning; next to it is a small square brown concrete block, To the right can be seen a small black and white painted concrete grave topped with a cross.

    Colombia
    The Wayúu people live on land rich in resources. So why are their children dying of hunger?

  • Franz Tattenbach, Costa Rica's minister of environment and energy, during an interview

    Franz Tattenbach
    ‘This country is what the world would like to be’:can Costa Rica’s environment minister keep its green reputation intact?

  • Berta Zuñiga Caceres (33), in front of a mural dedicated to her mother Berta Caceres, the murdered environmentalist. In the courtyard of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). La Esperanza, Intibuca, Honduras. 14.02.2024

    Honduras
    Eight years after Berta Cáceres’ murder is there new hope for justice?

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Resources

  • Woman and her daughter on banks of a river coloured red due to substances from mining in Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador.

    Mining
    Gold fever: big mining companies circle as El Salvador prepares to reverse ban

  • A man takes off his hat as another man applies water to his forehead in a blessing

    Agribusiness
    Murder, drought and peyote: the deadly struggle for Mexico’s water

  • Two children jump into a small natural pool as others play in the water

    Water wars
    ‘We cannot be cowards’: the Brazilian village fighting for the right to have water

  • Seven men carrying spears stand by a river looking at a mechanical digger on the opposite bank

    Illegal mining
    ‘Leave the gold in the ground’: Ecuador’s forest guardians mobilise against illegal mining in Amazon

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