When work becomes a party: capturing the joy of collective effort in an Indigenous community in Ecuador
Tristan Partridge, a photographer and social anthropologist, spent a decade documenting the working lives of the Kichwa-Panzaleo people of San Isidro for a new book
Commodities
‘It used to be a farm – now it’s a mall’: how El Salvador’s crisis-hit coffee producers are trying to adapt
Coffee once drove the economy but war, migration, climate and disease crippled the industry. Now, a new generation with women at the fore is focusing on quality as the answer
Daniel Noboa
From pristine forest to prison fortress: why Ecuador is sacrificing fragile ecosystems to build jails
As murder rates soar, Daniel Noboa plans high-security jails in remote areas. But local communities are determined to save their ancestral lands and a fragile, unique ecosystem
Fires
‘The Earth is crying out for help’: as fires decimate South America, smoke shrouds its skies
Huge tracts of land have burned from largely man-made blazes in Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Brazil and other countries, with people suffocating from its fallout
Lake Colhué Huapí
‘We used to sail and fish and play’: how did an Argentinian lake the size of New York City disappear?
Water
Mexico’s datacentre industry is booming – but are more drought and blackouts the price communities must pay?
Central America
Is circular migration a solution to the crisis at the US border? Guatemala provides a clue
Pesticides
‘Every time the planes pass, my eyes burn’: the hidden cost of Costa Rican bananas
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Hanging by a thread: Peruvian alpaca breeders’ way of life under threat
Mexico
‘Without them, the city would be lost’: the art of preserving Mexico City’s ancient floating gardens
The Mexican capital’s Unesco-listed wetlands are being brought back to life by the Indigenous chinamperos, who are striving to overcome the effects of urbanisation and the climate crisis
Displaced people
‘Children were dying. We didn’t even have aspirin’: the Indigenous Venezuelans forced far from home
Economic crisis has driven Warao communities from their traditional life in lush forest to a Brazilian slum
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Explore
Extreme weather
Brazil is reeling from catastrophic floods. What went wrong – and what does the future hold?
In the country’s south, up to half of the annual predicted rain fell in just 10 days – the third such event in a year. Experts say it is time to plan for a new normal
Charles Darwin
Darwin in Patagonia: tracing the naturalist’s route around the foot of South America
Oil exploration
‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives
Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution
Smallhold farming
‘My dream is to buy a piece of land’: the ‘outsiders’ farming at the Amazon’s last frontiers
Wildfires
‘We are in an era of megafires’: new tactics demanded as wildfires intensify across South America
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People
Fossil fuels
‘Just by breathing we are contaminated’:schoolgirls fight to extinguish Ecuador’s gas flares
Colombia
The Wayúu people live on land rich in resources. So why are their children dying of hunger?
Franz Tattenbach
‘This country is what the world would like to be’:can Costa Rica’s environment minister keep its green reputation intact?
Honduras
Eight years after Berta Cáceres’ murder is there new hope for justice?
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Resources
Mining
Gold fever: big mining companies circle as El Salvador prepares to reverse ban
Agribusiness
Murder, drought and peyote: the deadly struggle for Mexico’s water
Water wars
‘We cannot be cowards’: the Brazilian village fighting for the right to have water
Illegal mining
‘Leave the gold in the ground’: Ecuador’s forest guardians mobilise against illegal mining in Amazon
