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Science panel presents COP28 with blueprint for saving the Amazon

Dimitri Selibas 13 Dec 2023

Colombian Amazon park rangers face violence, threats by illegal armed groups

David Tarazona 12 Dec 2023
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Amazon deforestation declines but fossil fuels remain contentious, COP28 shows

Sarah Brown 7 Dec 2023

Least-studied areas of Brazilian Amazon at high risk from climate change

Maurício Brum and Lucas Berti 6 Dec 2023
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Peru’s crackdown on illegal gold mining a success, but only briefly, study shows

Dan Collyns 5 Dec 2023

Brazil cattle traceability program to limit deforestation in Pará state

Maxwell Radwin 4 Dec 2023

Cargill widens its deforestation-free goals, but critics say it’s not enough

Maxwell Radwin 29 Nov 2023

Quilombola communities take iron mine to U.K. court, alleging decade of damages

Sarah Brown 28 Nov 2023

Panama copper mine to close after Supreme Court rules concession unconstitutional

Maxwell Radwin 28 Nov 2023
A river in the Amazon rainforest interior of Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

U.N. carbon trading scheme holds promise and peril for tropical forests

Sarah Sax 23 Nov 2023
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

French banks accused of money laundering linked to Amazon deforestation

Dimitri Selibas 16 Nov 2023

Remediation overdue: South American countries fail to enforce oil cleanup laws

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Nov 2023
Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

As Colombia’s coca economy crashes, new opportunities — and threats — arise

Mie Hoejris Dahl 15 Nov 2023

Can blockchain clean up the gold industry in Brazil and across the globe?

Charlie Espinosa and Charles Lyons 14 Nov 2023

How the U.S. financial system props up illegal logging and mining

Maxwell Radwin 14 Nov 2023

Amazon deforestation has a regional, not just local impact: study

Maxwell Radwin 10 Nov 2023
wind farm

Colombian wind farm end-of-life raises circularity and Indigenous questions

Natalia Torres Garzón 9 Nov 2023

Lifted sanctions on gold, oil could slow conservation efforts in Venezuela

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2023
agroforestry

Ex-FARC members aim to restore 1 million native trees in the Colombian Amazon

Monica Pelliccia 7 Nov 2023

Expansion of Ecuador mine risks ‘imminent’ collapse of waste dam, experts warn

Dan Collyns 6 Nov 2023

Abandoned oil mess still plagues communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Diego Cazar Baquero 6 Nov 2023
mine peru

Poisoned for decades by a Peruvian mine, communities say they feel forgotten

Dan Collyns 2 Nov 2023
sonora train

In Sonora, Mexico, railway project flouts public consultation, threatening fragile ecosystems

Dawn Marie Paley 1 Nov 2023

In Venezuela, a mysterious fire sparks concerns for rare mountain wildlife

Maxwell Radwin 31 Oct 2023
pantanal fire

Jaguar haven in Brazil’s Pantanal burns amid ‘new normal’ of wildfires

Sarah Brown 30 Oct 2023

Environmental groups speak out against arrival of Mennonite farmers to Suriname

Maxwell Radwin 30 Oct 2023

New Paraguay law aims to improve carbon credit market

Maxwell Radwin 20 Oct 2023

Plan to bring Mennonite farmers to Suriname sparks deforestation fears

Maxwell Radwin 9 Oct 2023

Peruvian Amazon: Wounds remain after 50 years of oil spills on Achuar land

Gloria Alvitres 26 Sep 2023

How Canada’s growing presence in Latin America is hurting the environment

Maxwell Radwin 22 Sep 2023

São Paulo Indigenous community pins its territorial hopes on a new village

Sam Cowie 20 Sep 2023

Panama protests to protect ecosystems and canal against pending mining deal

Daniel Harkins 18 Sep 2023

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The Magpie River, known to the Indigenous Innu people as Mutehekau Shipu, in eastern Quebec, a region they know as Nitassinan. Image courtesy of Robert Macfarlane.
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