South & Central America

Without a plan to remove the criminal gangs and Colombian guerrillas that control gold mines in southern Venezuela, new foreign investments might worsen a vicious cycle of environmental destruction, ethnocide, and bribery, local advocacy groups tell The Energy Mix.

BOGOTÁ (AP) — Colombia’s outgoing environment minister warned Friday that the incoming government could reverse the country’s recent climate and conservation gains, pointing to its support for fracking and fossil fuel development and what she described as climate skepticism among some officials.

From land fraud to green lobbying, Brazil’s carbon markets are struggling to deliver what they promise—just as the country tries to lead on climate finance.

Indigenous resilience and ancestral knowledge guide recovery from Bolivia’s devastating 2024 wildfire crisis response efforts.

The war on Iran has sent fertilizer prices surging nearly 50%, but it's only the latest reason farmers in Canada and abroad are eyeing green ammonia: a fossil fuel-free fertilizer they could make themselves, right on the farm.

Venezuela’s bid to light its isolated communities with renewable microgrids has largely unravelled, mirroring the broader decline of a national power system centralized under former president Hugo Chávez.

"This is a government willing to reverse its own decision when it understands and recognizes their position,” said Guilherme Boulos, the Presidency’s General Secretary, referring to Indigenous protestors who rallied for 33 days against private concessions, including potential dredging, on a major tributary of the Amazon River.

A federal government agency has announced US$56 million in loan financing for a 396-megawatt solar project in Peru, just days before a trade association reported that all of Canada deployed only 57 MW of new utility-scale solar capacity last year.

From wildfires in South America and Australia to flooding southern Africa, climate change is delivering deadly impacts that largely come down to too much or not enough water.

What is happening in Venezuela is not just foreign intervention but a warning that energy, power, and coercion are being reorganized in ways that are already reshaping Canada’s economic, environmental, and strategic future.

Amid changing political headwinds, the moratorium on soy-driven deforestation is in danger. What now?

It took Donald Trump less than a week after his bombing raid in Venezuela to raise the ire of one major group of fossil industry donors, while threatening to freeze his country’s biggest publicly-traded oil company out of the production boom he thinks he can set in motion.

Donald Trump’s weekend raid on Venezuela has analysts debating whether and how fast the country can restore its past oil production, while world leaders react to a new geopolitical reality of Western Hemisphere domination.

A shared dream has brought solar-powered canoes to an Indigenous communities along the Ecuador-Peru border and changed the notion of “development” and who does it, writes Seeing Like a Local publisher Rosemary Cairns.

Voices from a country that normalizes oil spills.