A peaceful march against a gold mine in Argentina's La Rioja province was dispersed by police using tear-gas and rubber bullets to enforce a court order barring protests at the site.
At least nine have been killed and 20 more wounded in an escalating land conflict on Nicaragua's Miskito Coast over the past month, with hundreds displaced.
At least four are dead following clashes between police and residents in Peru's Apurímac region, amid protests over the Chinese-owned Las Bambas copper mine project.
The International Court of Justice ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear the case between Bolivia and Chile regarding land-locked Bolivia's access to the Pacific Ocean.
Colombia is suffering the worst drought and forest fires in its history, partially due to weather phenomenon El Niño, with water rationing instated across the country.
An indigenous ecological leader in Guatemala was killed outside a court that one day earlier ordered the closure of a plantation against which he had led protests.
Residents of a town in northwest Argentina took to the streets in protest after a pipe carrying cyanide to Barrick Gold's Veladero mine fractured and spilled its contents in the area.
Protesters cut off access to the Bolivian mining city of Potosí for almost a month in a dispute with the central government over development and investment in the remote region.
Following years of drought, Iran has quietly sought help from the US in managing a severe water crisis during the same period that US-Iran nuclear talks were underway.
One year after a catastrophic waste spill at British Columbia's Mount Polley Mine, the facility is set to re-open—but its expansion is blocked by the opposition of local First Nations.
An indigenous March for Life and Dignity arrived in Quito just as a general strike was launched to press Ecuador's President Rafael Correa on economic and environmental demands.
Federal authoriites approved an expansion of coal-mining and burning in the Four Corners area—as NASA has detected a massive methane plume over the region.
