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Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation

Amazon dams: No clean water, fish dying, then the pandemic came

$10 million XPRIZE Rainforest contest announces 33 qualifying teams

Study shows it took the Amazon as we know it over 6 million years to form

Declining fish biodiversity in Peruvian Amazon affecting human nutrition

Dams drove an Asian dolphin extinct. They could do the same in the Amazon

An Amazonian arapaima washed up in a Florida river. It didn’t swim there

Two new species of endangered screech owls identified from Brazil

The nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable

Amazon’s Belo Monte dam cuts Xingu River flow 85%; a crime, Indigenous say

Canopy beetles and flowering trees rely on each other in the Amazon, study

Belo Monte dam’s water demands imperil Amazon communities, environment

‘CSI Amazon’: Epic study looks at what’s killing the rainforest’s trees

The Amazon’s short-eared dog was thought to be a scavenger. Now there’s video

Colombia, ethnobotany, and America’s decline: An interview with Wade Davis

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

As the Amazon burns, what happens to its biodiversity?

Mercury from gold mining contaminates Amazon communities’ staple fish

Report names the banks financing destructive oil projects in the Amazon

Large indigenous territories are necessary for culture and biodiversity in Brazil, study says

Will the next coronavirus come from Amazonia? Deforestation and the risk of infectious diseases (commentary)

Qualified success: What’s next for Peru’s Operation Mercury?

Extreme El Niño drought, fires contribute to Amazon insect collapse: Study

New parasitoid wasp species discovered in Amazon manipulate host behavior in ‘complex way’

Chief Raoni, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, presides over historic meeting with over 600 indigenous leaders in Brazil

Xavante tribe digs in as Brazil reneges on vow not to build a road in their reserve

The fight is on to save the last clean waterway in Brazil’s Manaus

Women from the Xingu Territory unite against threats from Bolsonaro administration

Amazon’s giant South American river turtle holding its own, but risks abound

$10M in prize money for mapping rainforest biodiversity

Fires and greenhouse gases fuel drying of the Amazon

Vatican calls landmark meeting to conserve Amazon, protect indigenous peoples

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