Fifty million passengers pass through Miami International Airport each year, some with a dark secret. Concealed in the confines of their hair curlers, medicine bottles and baby formula are thousands ...

The expansion of Chinese transnational organized crime across Latin America creates challenges that extend well beyond environmental harm.

Criminal organizations behind environmental crimes and other illicit economies in Latin America and the Caribbean are placing the region’s vast biodiversity, fragile ecosystems, and Indigenous ways of ...

In 2024, Latin America continued facing chronic issues of deforestation, ecosystem contamination, violence, habitat loss and political turmoil. Changes brought on by presidential elections in several ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A two-month multinational police operation spanning nine Latin American countries resulted in 225 arrests for environmental crime and hundreds of new investigations into illegal ...

Rescuers in Venezuela recently saved a sloth trapped on electrical lines, a scene that played out on social media and drew attention to a wider problem plaguing wildlife in the region. The animal, ...