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What’s in store for Colombia’s forests? New modeling tries to predict.

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jun 2023

The Amazon saw record deforestation last year. Here’s why.

Maxwell Radwin 27 Jun 2023

Environmental policy and action on the ground in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Jun 2023
A river flows through the Amazon Rainforest.

Climate change and moisture recycling in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Jun 2023

Forest ecology and carbon dynamics in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Jun 2023

A powerful U.S. political family is behind a copper mine in the Colombian rainforest

Andrés Bermúdez Liévano 14 Jun 2023

The natural history of the Amazon Rainforest

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Jun 2023

Understanding the conventional economy of the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Jun 2023

Landfill in Colombia continues to pollute protected wetlands despite court-ordered clean-up

Maxwell Radwin 12 Jun 2023
Timber in Pará state and other parts of the Brazilian Amazon can bypass regulatory permits, allowing illegal wood to be sold domestically and internationally. Federal environmental agencies play an essential role in preventing this from happening, experts say.

The political economy of the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Jun 2023
A spectacled bear.

Learning to live with — and love — bears and eagles in Colombia’s cloud forest

James Hall 8 Jun 2023

The geography of environmental degradation in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Jun 2023

Drivers of environmental degradation in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Jun 2023

The state of the Amazon: Chapter 1 of “A Perfect Storm”

Timothy J. Killeen 31 May 2023

In the Colombian Amazon, Indigenous communities protect the sacred black caiman

Astrid Arellano 24 May 2023

Book: A perfect storm in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 May 2023

Study shows 10 million acres of Colombian rainforest at risk without new policies

Astrid Arellano 22 May 2023

3 million hectares of Colombian Amazon deforested for illegal pasture: Study

Antonio José Paz Cardona 19 May 2023

On the border of Colombia and Venezuela, illegal gold mining unites armed forces

Jose Guarnizo 12 May 2023

Colombian farmers turn deforested land into sustainable Amazonian farms

Antonio José Paz Cardona 8 May 2023
Kanamari Indigenous people carry out their work

More evidence backs Indigenous territories as best safeguard against Amazon deforestation

Liz Kimbrough 2 May 2023

Colombia: Scientists explore remote seamounts to protect hammerhead sharks

Tatiana Rojas Hernández 28 Apr 2023

Operation Artemis: Colombia’s failed military operation to stop deforestation

David Tarazona, Julián Parra De Moya 27 Apr 2023

A mountain of gold: Mining titles threaten Indigenous lands in Guainía, Colombia

Jose Guarnizo 26 Apr 2023
Lilia Java at Lake Tarapoto.

Indigenous women in Colombia protect rich Amazonian wetland from overfishing

Astrid Arellano 20 Apr 2023
Harvesting abundance in the Amazon, and extinguishing the poverty mentality.

From scarcity to abundance: The secret of the ‘peace farmers’ of Colombia

Sandra Weiss 17 Apr 2023

Indigenous communities and Mennonite colonies clash in Colombia

NATALIA BRITO 29 Mar 2023
Overflight of illegal mining within the Yanomani Indigenous territory, Roraima, Brazil, April 2021. Image by Christian Braga for Greenpeace.

Can a new regional pact protect the Amazon from environmental crime? (commentary)

Carolina Andrade, Melina Risso, Robert Muggah 28 Mar 2023

Ancient fires may be helping the Amazon survive droughts – modern ones, not so much

Maurício Brum 27 Mar 2023
Soraida Chindoy, 38, Indigenous leader from the Inga community of the Condagua reservation. She has been part of the movement to stop the mining project from the beginning. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay.

Plan to mine ‘clean energy’ metals in Colombian Amazon splits communities

Natalia Torres Garzón 22 Mar 2023

Colombia, Ecuador announce alert system to protect Indigenous Awá from armed groups

Maxwell Radwin 10 Mar 2023

Newly described DiCaprio’s snake and others threatened by mining in Ecuador and Panama

Liz Kimbrough 23 Feb 2023

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