Blanka Hay investigates the growing phenomenon of pet psychology in Buenos Aires, and asks if it is the urban environment itself that is driving owners to the their pups to visit the shrink.

If you’re finding our 2001-2011 crisis series has whet your appetite for more information on the subject, Cintia Dabes provides a round up of the best films and books that look at the economic meltdown in a more comprehensive way.

Already have your Christmas wishes down? Well, why not help environmental NGO Ambientate make theirs come true, by helping crowdfund their latest venture: FestEco: Argentina’s first zero carbon festival. FestEco is this week’s highlighted project by Ideame.

Recent violence on the agricultural frontier in Brazil and Argentina reveals the challenge of protecting native tribes as land used for food production escalates across the region.

Today marks one year since the brutal repression of the a peaceful roadblock by the indigenous Qom community in Formosa. Patricio Guillamón has spent a year following the case, and shares his images.

Most clothes retailers in Buenos Aires do not stock all sizes required by law, discriminating against larger men and women. Laura Mowat investigates the problem and speaks to those trying to tackle it.

Patricia di Filippo offers a comprehensive review of Argentine Supreme Court Justice Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni’s fascinating new book rethinking crime and criminology: ‘La palabra de los muertos’.

In Tipas Porteñas, photographer Beatrice Murch presents a side of Buenos Aires as iconic as Eva Perón or Jorge Luis Borges. They are canopies, they cut organic figures in the urban landscape, and at times exuberant dashes of colour, but they are ever present: the Tipa trees of Buenos Aires. On display at the Botanical Gardens in Palermo from Nov 21 – Dec 15.

Argentina is positioning itself as one of the world’s largest biodiesel producers, though there is still fierce debate about the potential impact on food prices. Cintia Dabes reviews the situation.

Francesca Fiorentini looks at the significance of the conclusion of the ESMA ‘megacase’, where 16 former naval officers were found guilty of crimes against humanity during the last military dictatorship.