5+ hour, 22+ min ago  (730+ words) —The pick. President-elect De la Espriella named Indalecio Dangond as agriculture minister. —Who he is. A rural-finance specialist with about four decades in the farm sector. —The plan. His priorities are banking farmers, titling land and building irrigation. —The scale....

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (763+ words) —The ranking. A global birdwatching study by travel insurer AllClear scored top sites out of one hundred across eight metrics. —The leaders. Peru’s Manú National Park topped the list with 83.1, followed by Tambopata on 67.5. —The sweep. Six of the global…...

4+ week, 14+ hour ago  (849+ words) —The plant. The juçara palm, known as the Atlantic Forest açai, yields a fruit much like the famous Amazonian berry. —The threat. Decades of logging for its heart of palm pushed the species onto Brazil’s endangered list. —The fix. Harvesting…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (327+ words) Chile · Defense & Security —The statement: Chile’s defense minister, Fernando Barros, said the Strait of Magellan “from its beginning to its end” is Chilean, dismissing any controversy with Argentina. —The trigger: An Argentine naval-hydrography chief claimed in a viral podcast that…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (465+ words) —The drive: Brazil has around 20 restitution negotiations underway to recover fossils and heritage from 14 countries. —Who holds them: The United States leads with eight open cases, followed by Germany with four and the United Kingdom with three. —Recent wins: Returns…...

6+ mon, 7+ hour ago  (379+ words) Paraguay closed 2025 with its strongest forestry export performance on record, logging $101.3 million in overseas sales and underscoring a broader economic pivot: earning more from what it processes, not simply from what it extracts. The numbers tell a revealing story. Total…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (292+ words) The newest Amazon timber map offers misleading comfort. SIMEX reports that logging across the biome dropped to 327,600 hectares in the August 2023 to July 2024 cycle. But the same mapping shows the problem moving into harder-to-protect ground. Inside Conservation Units, illegal logging…...

7+ mon, 4+ day ago  (273+ words) For most people outside Chile, Chiloé is a name on a map. For Chileans, it is a remote island of wooden churches and salmon farms – and until now, it has depended on ferries that stop when the weather turns rough....

7+ mon, 4+ week ago  (401+ words) Far from Hollywood and far even from mainland Chile, a rugged rock in the South Pacific has become an unlikely test case for how private capital, local science and indigenous demands can reshape conservation politics. Guafo Island, a largely uninhabited…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago  (301+ words) Science now makes it clear: the more Brazil clears Amazon forest, the less rain falls on its main farmland. Researchers at the University of São Paulo found that deforestation drives 74.5% of the Amazon’s declining rainfall in dry seasons, weakening the…...