ClimateCentral: Climate scientists have been saying for years that one of the many downsides of a warming planet is that…
By Codi Yeager , Circle of Blue: Though farmers are improving farm practices and productivity, the planet’s growing population —…
Tropical cyclones will cause $109 billion in damages by 2100, according to Yale and MIT researchers in a paper published in…
(AlertNet) – For almost two months, an intense drought has been damaging crops in Argentina, especially corn and soy, threatening…
Agricultural expansion and climate variability have become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon basin
The Amazon basin in transition
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Treehugger: A new study in the Journal of Glaciology shows that the glaciers in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca mountain range are melting…
Weather Underground: A week of torrential rains across Central America have triggered extreme floods and landslides that have killed 105 people,…
“Glacial Balance” will take us on a journey along the Andes – from Argentina to Colombia, dropping in on the…
The causes of melting of tropical glaciers over the past 10,000 years have at last been unveiled by a team…
The Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS hotspot/fire locations and burned…
An avalanche of mud smashed into a local bus in Colombia, killing at least 20 people after heavy rains battering…
DEVASTATION caused by floods in Colombia is worse than previously thought, warns children’s charity Plan UK.
More than 2.3 million Colombians…
Rains that devastated a mountainous region north of Rio de Janeiro have killed at least 626 people.
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MOSQUERA, Colombia (AlertNet) – The stench from the flood waters submerging the fields that have turned into lakes in this…
In the first of a four-part video series on climate change in Ecuador and Peru,…
A huge glacier broke off and plunged into a lake in Peru, causing a 75-foot (23-meter) tsunami wave that swept…
The worst heatwave to hit Rio de Janeiro in 50 years turned the city into a pre-Carnival furnace Wednesday, and…
