LatinaLista — Most of the world is familiar with the lush, green hillsides of Colombia courtesy of the countless commercials over the years promoting one of the country's main exports, coffee. Yet, not many know that Colombia ranks among…
LatinaLista — Campaign: This is My Earth A group of environmentalists, scientists and leaders from various countries and continents around the world have spent their lives working to protect nature and the environment on the planet. They are deeply…
LatinaLista — These days, it seems among the daily news headlines there’s always one about how some species of animal, insect, plant or marine animal is under attack from the environment, climate change or man. A report in the…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Dominican Republic’s Butterfly Biodiversity Center Butterfly Biodiversity Center Kelly Freeman is a Peace Corps volunteer and has teamed with Dr. Jose G. Maldonado-Rivera the founder/executive director of the Dominican Republic’s first public Science, Technology, Engineering and…
By Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista Two pieces of startling, yet intertwined news made headlines this weekend: (1) we’re eleven hundredths away from hitting a new, grim climate change marker; and (2)climate change will cause widespread species extinctions. Scientists had originally…
LatinaLista — Earth Day 2013 should have been more than just a “celebration” of the planet or even a further raising of awareness of the consequences of climate change. Earth Day 2013 should have served as the beginning of…
By Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista There have been five mass extinctions – times when the Earth has lost more than three-quarters of its species in a relatively short timeframe – during the past 540 million years. Today, almost 20,000 species…
Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista You may have heard the news that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have pushed past 400 parts per million at monitoring stations in the Arctic. Carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping gas, in fact the most pervasive…
By Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista (Editor’s Update: On the day the following article was published, a new report by the World Wildlife Fund documents a 30 percent decrease since the 1970s in global biodiversity.) Biodiversity is the life blood of…
