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US lawmakers urge Trump administration to oppose Colombia’s Amazon aerial spraying plans

Associated Press 30 Oct 2026

In Suriname’s Amazon, the Wayana community struggling to keep gold miners at bay

Maxwell Radwin 29 Oct 2026

Netherlands pledges $500 million to help conserve tropical forests

David Brown 28 Oct 2026

New report maps widespread criminal presence across six Amazonian countries

Aimee Gabay 27 Oct 2026

Countries take first step toward global crackdown on environmental crime

Spoorthy Raman 27 Oct 2026

Organized crime is growing along highway in a pristine section of the Amazon: Study

Fernanda Wenzel 26 Oct 2026

Sri Lanka mourns iconic tusker amid renewed calls to address human-elephant conflict

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Oct 2026

Death of iconic elephant in Sri Lanka pushes authorities to fast-track protection efforts

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 23 Oct 2026

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado savanna at lowest rate ever recorded

Shanna Hanbury 22 Oct 2026

Anatomy of a land grab: the law, likes, and legislator behind an Indigenous land invasion in Brazil

Aimee Gabay, Elisângela Mendonça 19 Oct 2026
Seasonally flooded Igapó forest near Manaus, Brazil. Image courtesy of Alexey Yakovlev via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

A Belgium-sized area of Amazon wetland has been converted, and losses are climbing

Shanna Hanbury 19 Oct 2026
In the Los Ángeles community within the Monte Verde territory in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department, the Indigenous Chiquitano people confront and evict the invaders. Image by Edy Yobanny Velasco.

New tool reveals siege on Indigenous lands in Bolivia’s Amazon

Nelfi Fernández Reyes 15 Oct 2026

Indonesia says it no longer needs forests for rice. What happens to projects underway?

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Oct 2026
Flávio Bolsonaro campaigns in Bélem, Pará, in September 2026. Image courtesy of Vittor Sales.

Brazil far-right presidential candidate wins most votes in deforestation hotspots

Shanna Hanbury 5 Oct 2026

Uncertainty mounts as Suriname struggles to evict illegal settlers in the Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 5 Oct 2026

Future of Amazon rainforest policies at stake in Brazilian presidential election

Associated Press 2 Oct 2026

In Brazil’s Acre, calls for new roads clash with deforestation commitments

Constance Malleret 30 Sep 2026
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong

Gerald Flynn 29 Sep 2026

Indonesia passes agrarian reform law amid concerns over land protections

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Sep 2026

Chocolate giant lobbied U.S. and EU officials over deforestation laws, says report

Naina Rao 25 Sep 2026

Floating weeds threaten farming and fishing at Malawi’s Chia Lagoon

Charles Mpaka 23 Sep 2026

Photographing Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict — Interview with Federico Borella

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Sep 2026

Tight Brazil election challenges fragile gains for Amazon conservation

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes, Lucas Berti 21 Sep 2026
A Tapanuli orangutan. Image © Bert Harris via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Tapanuli orangutans face mining, landslides, and fire threats — with no recovery plan

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Sep 2026
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, stands alongside commanders of the armed forces during the playing of Brazil's national anthem at a Soldier's Day ceremony at Army headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

Brazil election could put 95% of the Amazon under right-wing governments

Lucas Berti 15 Sep 2026
Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil. Illustration by Giovana Abreu/Intercept Brasil.

Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil

Naira Hofmeister 10 Sep 2026
Mapuche Indigenous women prepare to commemorate the National Day of Indigenous People as part of celebrations of "We Tripantu," the Mapuche new year coinciding with the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, at the Original People's Ceremonial Park in Santiago, Chile, Monday, June 2023. Image by: AP Photo/Esteban Felix.

Indigenous land back in Chile brings mixed bag of environmental outcomes: Study

Aimee Gabay 9 Sep 2026
Deforestation in the Chiquitania in 2021, the Bolivian region with the largest tropical dry forest in the Americas. Image courtesy of Eduardo Franco.

Planned Bolivia-Brazil highway threatens Chiquitania dry forest

Iván Paredes Tamayo 3 Sep 2026
Smooth-coated otters (Lutrogale perspicillata) have a midday snack at Jurong Eco Garden, Singapore. Image by JJ Harrison via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Logging operations uncovered at Cambodian senator’s dam in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 2 Sep 2026

For 50 years, Philip Fearnside has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Aug 2026
Round concrete sign painted with a stylised moon and sea in blues and white, towers over cars at a roundabout in Calabar, Cross River State. it reads "Destination Cross River State: the nation's paradise"

Nigeria can build the new coastal highway and also protect natural areas (commentary)

Mahmoud Ibrahim Mahmoud 26 Aug 2026
James Giahyue, editor-in-chief of The DayLight, a Liberian environmental news magazine. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

‘They will do it legally or illegally’: Interview with James Giahyue on Liberia’s cocoa boom

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Aug 2026

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