Colombia battles a severe environmental crisis with 21 forest fires, fueled by unseasonably high temperatures and an extended El Niño weather pattern, threatening fragile biodiversity and the Andean high-altitude wetlands.
Amidst a relentless heat wave, wildfires blaze in Bogotá’s Cerros Orientales, fueled by the El Niño phenomenon, prompting a city-wide firefighting effort and heightened vigilance.
The launch of United for Wildlife’s Latin America chapter in Santa Marta, Colombia, included the release of endangered marine species back to their natural habitat.
Bogotá has clinched the top spot by TomTom for “worst traffic” and time commuters annually spend in gridlock. The index measured 390 cities based on travel time, fuel costs and CO2 emissions.
A giant sea elephant that traveled from the Antarctic waters to the Colombian Pacific, was poached by hunters and killed by firearms, confirmed authorities.
President Petro will declare Colombia a “national disaster” given extreme weather and measure that gives the government additional resources to help populations facing the climate crisis.
Twelve high-tech, tactical gunships make us the new “fleet of macaws” that will patrol Colombia’s Amazon and used to protect this biosphere against environmental crimes.
Bogotá has embarked with bike-sharing mobility and smart technology transportation as 3,300 mechanical and electric bikes become available for users.
During his first address to the United Nations, Colombia’s Gustavo Petro called for an end to all wars, and war against the planet.
Colombia’s Gustavo Petro has pledged to ban fracking, protect the Amazon biosphere and transition toward renewable energies. But can the divisive president deliver on a slate of green initiatives?
The Colombian government inaugurated in the port of Cartagena the Caribbean Oceanographic and Hydrographic Research Center, for the protection and conservation of its sovereign waters.
Colombia has become the first Western nation to protect 30 percent of its oceanic waters, ahead of the UN’s deadline of 2030.
The Stockholm Conference was a turning point in how countries thought about the natural world and the resources that all nations share.
Colombia presented a definitive version of the nation’s offshore wind road map, and first to be developed in South America. The country has the potential to generate 9 GW by 2050.
The Green Iguana’s population comes under threat every Lent as this species is hunted for its meat and eggs. Iguanas on the coast are eaten as a substitute for fish and chicken.
Despite the early onset of the rainy season, the wettest weeks in Colombia are expected between mid-April and end of May.