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Law from the ground up: Latin America’s model of Environmental Law Clinics

Law from the ground up: Latin America’s model of Environmental Law Clinics

Can the law serve as a tool to halt ecological collapse? Can it shape professionals who defend life—not just in courtrooms, but in communities? In the midst of a climate crisis and deep territ...

The last ownerless territory: Antarctica and the 2048 window

The last ownerless territory: Antarctica and the 2048 window

In Argentine school maps, coloured in the national colours, Antarctica appears marked by a white triangle stretching from Ushuaia to the South Pole. Chilean maps show another triangle, overlapping t...

The effects of Human error on the health of the planet

The effects of Human error on the health of the planet

As predicted since the 19th century, the planet is undergoing a dramatic rise in global temperature. The last 10 years have been the hottest ever recorded in history. However, the term “global...

The role of women in Latin America and the Caribbean in facing the climate crisis

The role of women in Latin America and the Caribbean in facing the climate crisis

In recent years, the effects of weather and climate phenomena in Latin America and the Caribbean have rippled across the region—from the Andes to Patagonia, from cities to coastal towns—...

From Jaguars to Sharks: Protecting Wildlife Against Transnational Crime

From Jaguars to Sharks: Protecting Wildlife Against Transnational Crime

From Mexico to Argentina, through Central America and Brazil, wildlife trafficking has evolved from a marginal crime into a key component of transnational organized crime, closely linked to drug tra...

The importance of social determinants: How inequality makes pandemics more deadly

The importance of social determinants: How inequality makes pandemics more deadly

“The paradox is that a risk that makes us all equal reveals, at the same time, how unequal we are,” reads the book Pandemocracy: A Philosophy of the Coronavirus by Spanish philosoph...

COP30, climate change and forced migration in Latin America

COP30, climate change and forced migration in Latin America

Climate change not only destroys territories and ecosystems — it deepens historical inequalities and forces millions of people to move. In Latin America and the Caribbean, where structural pov...

COP30: Time to act for the defenders of the planet

COP30: Time to act for the defenders of the planet

Latin America faces one of its deepest contradictions: it is the most dangerous region in the world for those who defend the environment, yet it is also the birthplace of the first international tre...

From whales to algorithms: why Latin America can lead a nature-inspired AI

From whales to algorithms: why Latin America can lead a nature-inspired AI

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Latin America and the Caribbean are undergoing a vertiginous digital transformation. Social media,...

The vital role of soil diversity for sustainable agriculture

The vital role of soil diversity for sustainable agriculture

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The smell of wet earth is unmistakable and evokes something in all human beings. But why do we lik...

Integrating Knowledge for the Conservation of Amazonian Biodiversity

Integrating Knowledge for the Conservation of Amazonian Biodiversity

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Amazon is the biome of superlatives. As the world's largest tropical forest and often describe...

Drought, Climate Change, and Scientific Diplomacy: A Collective Response from Latin America

Drought, Climate Change, and Scientific Diplomacy: A Collective Response from Latin America

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Drought is no longer just a natural or cyclical phenomenon: it is one of the most destructive impa...

Telecoupling: A story about lithium and asymmetric global transformations

Telecoupling: A story about lithium and asymmetric global transformations

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Aapo got up and looked out the window. The Baltic Sea was calm as always at dawn. Many years had p...

What is inclusive conservation and why is it important for ensuring our survival?

What is inclusive conservation and why is it important for ensuring our survival?

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano We are facing an unprecedented environmental and climate crisis. A significant portion of the rema...

Latin America's Potential to Lead the Transition to a Sustainable Blue Economy

Latin America's Potential to Lead the Transition to a Sustainable Blue Economy

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is home to 19% of the world's marine ecoregions. Bathed by t...

What is the ‘empty forest syndrome’ and why it should concern us

What is the ‘empty forest syndrome’ and why it should concern us

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in inglese The loss of wildlife diversity and ecosystem fragmentation have triggered the phenomenon known as t...

Mining is turning the Amazon into a desert

Mining is turning the Amazon into a desert

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Imagine an arid, desolate and barren landscape, this is what the planet Mars looks like. For many ...

Biodiversity and Health: A Vital Alliance for Our Future

Biodiversity and Health: A Vital Alliance for Our Future

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Nature is fundamental to the health of people and communities. But when the word “biodiversi...

Climate-Biodiversity-Water Nexus: the protection of ecosystem services in South America

Climate-Biodiversity-Water Nexus: the protection of ecosystem services in South America

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In recent years, major and historical-record wildfires have devastated regions worldwide, includin...

Indigenous lands are key to conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change

Indigenous lands are key to conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation have become priorities on the global agend...