The gloomy future of Venezuela

Venezuela, a nation once defined by its vast oil wealth and vibrant political landscape, now navigates a period of deep uncertainty. Its trajectory is shaped by internal forces, historical legacies, and external pressures. The presidential...

World Reuters Mexico's Sheinbaum 'confident' in favorable trade deals, readies tech projects

By Sarah Morland MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Sunday she is confident her government will reach a favorable agreement with the United States and other nations regarding trade, and will in parallel present...

Harvard Law Professor, a Founding Member of Think Tank That Drove Gun Control in Brazil, On Leave After Firing Pellet Gun Near Synagogue During Yom Kippur

Harvard Law School visiting professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea (Harvard Law School) Harvard Law School describes visiting professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea as a "human rights activist" who founded a Brazilian think tank that "led the largest...

How Our Food Can Change the Climate

Even if the world were to stop burning coal, oil, and gas tomorrow, what we eat would still be enough to push global temperatures above 1.5 degrees Celsius, Politico reported. That is the stark warning from the EAT-Lancet Commission — a panel of...

How Venezuela’s Air Defenses Could Challenge Any U.S. Strike?

Begin with combat aviation, the first ring of defense. The Aviación Militar Bolivariana fields around twenty Su-30MKV multirole aircraft as the backbone of its fighter force and retains a remnant of F-16A/Bs with erratic availability. The Su-30s...

This new train is making it easier to explore remote corners of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula

Jake Naughton The view of Lake Bacalar from the boardwalk. Dawn was breaking over the lagoon when I looked down and saw one of the oldest life forms on earth. It wasn’t much to look at. Lumpy, white, and sitting just below the surface of the...

This New Train Is Making It Easier to Explore Remote Corners of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula—How to Visit

Dawn was breaking over the lagoon when I looked down and saw one of the oldest life forms on earth. It wasn’t much to look at. Lumpy, white, and sitting just below the surface of the water, it resembled an overgrown cauliflower. But its appearance...

Antigua’s Curtain Bluff Resort Wins Caribbean’s Leading Green Resort at World Travel Awards

Antigua and Barbuda scored a victory at the World Travel Awards Caribbean & North America Gala Ceremony 2025, with Curtain Bluff recognized as ‘Caribbean’s Leading Green Resort’ at the star-studded event held in Saint Lucia. The pred carpet...

China’s green strategy redefines Latin America’s global dev. role

China’s renewable energy partnerships in Latin America are transforming the region from a Western-defined “resource exporter” into an active player in global green development China’s expanding renewable energy investments across Latin America are...

Uprooted review – the female fightback against the exploitation of Latin America

The previous show devised by the international theatre company Ephemeral Ensemble was subtle, horrifying and exhilarating: Rewind, about Latin America’s “disappeared”, landed a punch straight to the gut and was, for me, one of last year’s most...

Brazilian Cerrado biome lost 28% of native vegetation in 40 years

An analysis of data from the MapBiomas historical series on land use in Brazil, released this week, reveals alarming information about the Cerrado, which occupies 23.3 percent of the country’s territory. According to the study, over 40 years, the...

Macmillan Education Caribbean announces its 2025 Young Environmental Scientists Competition

Macmillan Education Caribbean has announced the opening of the 2025 Young Environmental Scientists (YES) Competition, to be launched at the start of October 2025. A press release from the publishing giant stated that the competition welcomes...

Prince William is off to Brazil for the 2025 Earthshot Prize

The Prince of Wales will present the 2025 Earthshot prize in Brazil. Prince William will travel to Rio de Janeiro in November for the ceremony which recognises projects supporting and enhancing the natural world through environmental innovation....

Latin America and the Caribbean accelerate adoption of AI

SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has released a new publication that systematically measures the level of preparedness, adoption, and governance of artificial intelligence (AI) in 19...

Why Fossil Fuels Are Having Such A Hard Time Competing With Renewables

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The 3 reasons fossil fuels have such a hard time competing are: It keeps getting harder to find and extract fossil fuels. Renewable technology lowers costs far faster than...

Four key climate components are losing stability

Summary: Four of the most critical components of the Earth’s climate system are showing clear signs of destabilization, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience. Using observation-based data, an international team of scientists has...

Central American Gyre likely to form fueling late-season tropical development off Central American coastline

As we get further into October, tropical activity becomes less focused on the tropical Atlantic Basin and more focused in the Caribbean and Gulf. And this year is no exception as many computer forecast models show the potential for a Central...

Carbon footprint: The comeback of sails in shipping sees huge environmental and economic benefits

But the hit to Jourdan’s pay is buying him peace of mind. When his 3-year-old son, Marcel, grows up, the burly French mariner wants to be able to explain what he did to make a dent in the the shipping industry’s huge carbon footprint. The...

China's distant-water fishing fleet is engine of environmental destruction, labour exploitation: Report

Colombo, October 5 (IANS): China's distant-water fishing fleet is an engine of environmental destruction and labour exploitation, which, if continued, will keep on destroying ecosystems, undermining food security and violating human rights, a...

The mother of Colombian corals

SAN ANDRÉS, Colombia — Nearly 50 years after she first put on a wetsuit, Elvira Alvarado still remembers coming upon a coral reef off Colombia's Caribbean coast. "Everything was alive. And it was green and bright orange. And there were fishes. And...