Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Plus, a capybara controversy in Argentina. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/podcasts/the-headlines/trump-deportations-climate-research-capybara.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Crowds of tourists bound for Antarctica have brought prosperity to Argentina’s southernmost city, but the boom is also squeezing locals and stressing the environment. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/travel/ushuaia-argentina-antarctica-cruises.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Males of the South American species incubate their young in their vocal sacs. The London Zoo recently established a breeding colony to save the frog from extinction. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/science/darwins-frogs-chytridiomycosis-london-zoo.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest wetlands, is home to a sizable population of jaguars. Near one tiny outpost, the normally shy animals are remarkably easy to observe. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/travel/brazil-jaguars-pantanal-tours.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A massive superberg, four times as big as New York City, has halted east of the southern tip of South America. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/climate/iceberg-antarctica-a23a.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As he made his final appearance at global gatherings, including at the Group of 20 summit in Brazil, President Biden lobbied for his foreign policy goals even as leaders shifted attention away from him. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/world/americas/biden-g20-summit.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As the glaciers of South America retreat, the supply of freshwater is dwindling and its quality is getting worse. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/science/peru-glaciers-water-pollution.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The president toured the rainforest and promised Brazil funds for environmental initiatives, even as the incoming Trump administration appears poised to roll them back. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/world/americas/biden-amazon-climate.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The South American nation says it is considering withdrawing from the landmark agreement, which aims to limit carbon emissions and slow global warming. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/world/americas/argentina-exit-climate-deal.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link to the region’s evolutionary history. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/science/fossils-colombia-terror-birds.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Delegates at the U.N. talks in Colombia created a fund that would compensate countries for the use of genetic information. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/climate/cop16-cali-colombia-nature-biodiversity.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Delegates from around the world are meeting in Colombia in what is expected to be the biggest U.N. biodiversity conference in history. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/climate/biodiversity-cop-cali-colombia.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight countries, is drying up. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/world/americas/south-america-drought-amazon-river.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/world/americas/amazon-river-climate-change-brazil.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Brazil is proposing a fund that would pay countries to protect tropical forests that are crucial to curbing climate change. It would generate returns, too. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/climate/brazil-climate-fund-trees.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Vast, diverse parts of Brazil are burning at the same time, forcing officials to rethink how to protect crucial ecosystems like the Amazon. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/climate/the-fires-that-could-reshape-the-amazon.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As Colombia prepares to host a global biodiversity summit, killings of environmental defenders in the country rose again last year, according to a new report. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/climate/colombia-environmental-activist-killings.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A small team in a remote corner of Colombia is surveying every tree in an effort to better understand how much planet-warming carbon the Amazon actually stores. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/climate/amazon-forest-carbon-colombia.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In Brazil, wildfires have roared across the Pantanal, a maze of rivers, forests and marshlands that sprawl over an area 20 times the size of the Everglades. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/world/americas/pantanal-wildfires-wildlife.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Ailton Krenak was a child when his family was forced to leave their land in Brazil. Now, as a writer, he advocates for a path forward that looks to nature and inherited wisdom. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/books/booksupdate/ailton-krenak-future-ancestral-.html