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Brazil’s shipping channel plans in Amazonian rivers will worsen climate change, experts warn

Tiffany Higgins 23 Dec 2024

The fuel that moves people: the Ecuadorian case

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Dec 2024

Water returns to Amazon rivers amid historic drought

Shanna Hanbury 12 Dec 2024

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2024

Amazon Airstrips

Mongabay Latam 4 Dec 2024

‘Trump is a disease’, says Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa

Daniel Camargos, from Repórter Brasil 2 Dec 2024
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazil beef industry still struggling with deforestation from indirect suppliers, survey finds

Maxwell Radwin 26 Nov 2024

The effects of mass migration in Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Nov 2024

Five-year rainforest tech competition culminates with four winners

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Nov 2024

Weak laws on native seeds undermine Brazil reforestation efforts: Study

Shanna Hanbury 15 Nov 2024

Brazil renews plan to restore degraded land half the size of the UK

Shanna Hanbury 7 Nov 2024

Evolution of the Pan Amazon in the post-Jesuit era

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2024

In Colombia, guerrilla groups decide the fate of the Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 31 Oct 2024

Impacts and legacies of migration across the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2024

Illegal logging footprint in the Amazon expanded by a fifth, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 21 Oct 2024

Rural-urban migration across the Amazon Basin

Timothy J. Killeen 18 Oct 2024

Brazil upgrades park to protect Amazon’s tallest tree, allows tourism

Shanna Hanbury 14 Oct 2024

The people who make up the Pan-Amazonian melting pot: regional demographics

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Oct 2024

CHAPTER 6. Culture and demographics defines the Pan Amazon’s present

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Sep 2024

Brazil judge fines slaughterhouses for Amazon deforestation

Shanna Hanbury 18 Sep 2024

Amazon River and tributaries at record low levels

Shanna Hanbury 17 Sep 2024
An Indigenous group in a boat in the Ucayali River.

Report links killings to environmental crimes in Peru’s Amazon

Aimee Gabay 12 Sep 2024
Holding their communities' titles are Apu Juan Jarana Pérez from San Alberto de Morona community, Apa Elizethy Cruz Ponciano from San Jose de Yanayacu community, and Pedro Alcidez Pérez Peña from Sargento Lores de Camote Isla community. Image courtesy of Sacha Cine/Rainforest Foundation US.

Record number of Indigenous land titles granted in Peru via innovative process (commentary)

Miguel Guimaraes Vasquez, Wendy Pineda 6 Sep 2024
Isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

Peruvian logger loses FSC label after latest clash with isolated Mashco Piro

Dan Collyns 4 Sep 2024
With the advance of agriculture in Maranhão, rain cycles have been disrupted and rivers and streams have begun drying. Some of the state’s only remaining rainforest lies within a group of Indigenous lands here, home to the Guarani people. Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

In the Brazilian Amazon, seedlings offer hope for drying rivers

Ana Ionova 30 Aug 2024
A channel-billed toucan in Yasuní National Park.

Could the ‘rights of nature’ save Yasuní and keep its oil in the ground? (commentary)

Mari Margil, Hugo Echeverría 29 Aug 2024

At the ‘Biodiversity Olympics,’ scientists work to democratize rainforest tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Aug 2024

One year after oil referendum, what’s next for Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park?

Aimee Gabay 20 Aug 2024

Tree bark removes atmospheric methane, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 16 Aug 2024

Peru’s isolated Mashco Piro tribe attacks loggers in their ancestral territory

Bobby Bascomb 15 Aug 2024

Brazil cites Mongabay reporting in recommendation to suspend ‘rotten’ carbon credit projects

Bobby Bascomb 13 Aug 2024

Oil and gas expansion threatens Peru’s isolated Indigenous peoples

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Aug 2024

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