Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups across Latin America.
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‘The tranquility frees you’: Bogotá, the city that shuts out cars every week, theguardian.com (May 30, 2024)
Right to manage a Brazilian state park celebrated by fishing community, news.mongabay.com (May 28, 2024)
Rio de Janeiro bay reforestation shows mangroves’ power to mitigate climate disasters, apnews.com (May 24, 2024)
International development can tackle the climate and migration crises together, theconversation.com (May 21, 2024)
Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?, theguardian.com (May 01, 2024) — More than half of the country’s forestry is in community and Indigenous hands – and from CO2 absorption to reducing poverty the results are impressive
April 2024[edit | edit source]
Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes, desmog.com (Apr 30, 2024)
Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction thanks to education and research, news.mongabay.com (Apr 30, 2024)
Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts, BBC Future (Apr 22, 2024)
'I want to erase my own footprint': The women looking after an island paradise, BBC News (Apr 21, 2024)
Women fight back as Milei’s government tries to starve their soup kitchens, opendemocracy.net (Apr 03, 2024)
March 2024[edit | edit source]
International Court Issues First-Ever Decision Enforcing the Right to a Healthy Environment, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 29, 2024)
The best solutions to make life possible in the Caatinga semiarid region are those born from popular wisdom. “Those that sprout like a seed you put in the ground.” Tião Alves, news.mongabay.com (Mar 25, 2024)
Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, aljazeera.com/ (Mar 18, 2024)
Lima’s neurodiverse picnic movement is liberating Peruvians from stigma and abuse, positive.news (Mar 13, 2024)
This is how Latin America tries to turn its youth into young homeowners, globalvoices.org (Mar 01, 2024)
February 2024[edit | edit source]
Afro-Brazilian quilombo community wins historic land claim, setting new precedent, news.mongabay.com (Feb 29, 2024)
Community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon across Brazil’s soy belt, news.mongabay.com (Feb 15, 2024)
‘We are in an era of megafires’: new tactics demanded as wildfires intensify across South America, theguardian.com (Feb 13, 2024)
In Chile, huge wildfires have killed at least 131 people – but one village was almost untouched, theconversation.com (Feb 08, 2024)
Hopes for end to land conflicts raised by new agrarian courts in Colombia, news.mongabay.com (Feb 07, 2024)
January 2024[edit | edit source]
Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2024)
Puerto Rico is using residents’ home batteries to back up its grid, grist.org (Jan 16, 2024)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Latin America news (latest), Latin America news/2009-2023
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