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Brazil’s race to approve the end of the Amazon: The BR-319 highway needs a new environmental impact assessment (commentary)

‘We need white men on our side to save the Amazon from destruction,’ 92-year-old Indigenous Chief Raoni says

Brazil’s BR-319 highway disaster: Yet another maneuver (commentary)

Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil

How the Brazilian military sabotaged protection of Indigenous people in the Amazon

Report links killings to environmental crimes in Peru’s Amazon

Clearest picture yet of Amazon carbon density could help guide conservation

Extreme drought pushes Amazon’s main rivers to lowest-ever levels

Resilient and resourceful, Brazil’s illegal gold capital resists government crackdown

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

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

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

Nearly all Brazilian gold imported by EU is likely illegal, report says

Brazil launches ‘war’ on widespread fire outbreaks & criminal arsonists

In the Brazilian Amazon, seedlings offer hope for drying rivers

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

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

Study shows most Amazon beef & soy demand comes from Brazil — not exports

As Amazonian rivers recede under drought, manatees are left exposed to poaching

Indigenous communities sidelined for Suriname’s new carbon credit program, critics say

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

Brazil’s ‘Mothers of the Mangroves’ protect an ecological and cultural heritage

Acre’s communities face drinking water shortage amid Amazon drought

Deal ends environmental agents’ strike in Brazil, but grievances fester

Streak of falling deforestation snapped at 15 months in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

Forest degradation releases 5 times more Amazon carbon than deforestation: Study

Amazon Fraud 101: How timber credits mask illegal logging in Brazil

Scaling up the Amazon’s many bioeconomies requires investment in nature, prosperity, and inclusion (commentary)

Raw materials become high-value bioeconomy goods at an Amazon science park

New datasets identify which crops deforest the Amazon, and where

No plans, no progress make Peru’s energy transition uncertain

New Indigenous reserve in the Amazon among first steps to protect peoples in isolation

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