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Diver holding a sun coral

These divers are killing a beautiful coral to save Brazil’s marine life

Julia Lima 7 Nov 2026
Collage Maxwell Radwin and Gold mine

This riverside border town is fueling an illegal gold rush

Julia Lima, Maxwell Radwin 7 Nov 2026

Peru’s drive for critical minerals threatens a disappearing glacier

Euan Wallace 6 Nov 2026
In Brazil, the country’s first urban yellow fever outbreak in more than 80 years was triggered by record drought, along with deforestation and other land use change.

Drought driven by climate change is redefining how disease spreads, study finds

Adam Litchkofski 6 Nov 2026

‘Stringing me along’: After 7 years, trial in Indigenous forest guardian killing delayed again

Karla Mendes 6 Nov 2026
Cacao expansion in Pará is taking place almost entirely on land degraded before 2020, ensuring compliance with the European Union's environmental rules, the largest cocoa-buying market.

Amazon mapping shows cacao expansion without deforestation in Brazil

Rafael Spuldar 5 Nov 2026

Money laundering complaints target JBS, Barclays over profits linked to illegal deforestation

Shanna Hanbury 5 Nov 2026
A village in the Tumucumaque Indigenous Park. Image courtesy of Kamikia Kisedje, Nia Tero/Iepé Archive.

This entire Indigenous territory didn’t get to vote in Brazil’s elections

Shanna Hanbury 5 Nov 2026
Collage for the story: Anatomy of a land grab: the law, likes, and legislator behind an Indigenous land invasion in Brazil

Revealing Amazon land grabs targeting an uncontacted community

Aimee Gabay, Juan Maza 4 Nov 2026
A water tap in the Cacique Chicão settlement in Recife's Ibura neighborhood.

Water rationing in Recife, Brazil, falls along racial lines

Adriana Amâncio, Áthila Galindo, Yamini Benites 4 Nov 2026
marine iguana

Scientists call on Ecuador to stop the rising trafficking of Galápagos iguanas

Spoorthy Raman 4 Nov 2026

Brazil election sparks threats to reinvade Indigenous Amazon territory

Aimee Gabay 3 Nov 2026

Two public servants in Brazil removed after threatening to poison Indigenous people

Karla Mendes 2 Nov 2026
A rancher with his cattle herd in Mato Grosso state.

Ranchers in Brazil ordered to leave home of Indigenous people living in voluntary isolation

Aimee Gabay 2 Nov 2026
In March, IBAMA dismantled an illegal mining operation in the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Territory in Roraima. This image from Operation Xapiri shows rocks resulting from bedrock blasting. After being crushed, the ore is processed using cyanide to separate the gold from other minerals.

Cyanide ponds from illegal mining threaten Amazon Indigenous territory

Elizabeth Oliveira 2 Nov 2026
Amazonian tiny bats

How bats can be forest architects

Romi Castagnino 2 Nov 2026
Tesifying at a hearing, Mayerly López from Colombia, Marco Manobanda, an Indigenous fish-farmer from Las Naves, Ecuador. Image courtesy of Earthworks.

Environmental defenders testify about attacks in Latin America linked to Canadian mining companies

Annie Burns-Pieper 31 Oct 2026

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
A giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

Between revered and hunted: The journey of human-otter coexistence in the Amazon

Sarah Brown 29 Oct 2026
Visiting area of the Véu de Noiva waterfall in Cantá, Roraima.

‘Already feeling it’: Northern Amazon waterfall season ends early, hurting livelihoods

Felipe Medeiros 29 Oct 2026
A watercolor by the Indigenous Wayana, Aimawale Opoya.

Suriname’s rich archaeological history may hold keys to conservation

Peter Speetjens 28 Oct 2026
Copper mine in Chile. Image by Tom Hegen

Photographer Tom Hegen’s aerial eye reveals the true scale of the critical mineral age

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026

New report maps widespread criminal presence across six Amazonian countries

Aimee Gabay 27 Oct 2026
Darwin’s rheas.

These giant birds nearly disappeared

Julia Lima, Romi Castagnino 27 Oct 2026

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

Fernanda Wenzel 26 Oct 2026
Robson Mura, of the Mura Indigenous community, watches the sunrise at the Moyray village in Autazes, Amazonas state, February 2025.

Canadian-backed potash mine in Brazil has dried up sacred Amazon springs, say residents

Aimee Gabay 26 Oct 2026
Incumbent Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in São Paulo, Brazil, after his election win. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert.

‘Defeat for denialism’: Lula beats far right Bolsonaro in Brazilian presidential election

Shanna Hanbury 26 Oct 2026
Manaus woke up shrouded in smoke on Oct 17. In the background, the Negro River is barely visible on the horizon. Image courtesy of Juliana Pesqueira/Amazônia Real.

Amazon fires trap Manaus in smoke as authorities target arsonists

Tiago da Mota e Silva 26 Oct 2026
An elephant in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

At Yerevan’s COP17 biodiversity summit, a steep climb ahead for ‘30 by 30’ target

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Oct 2026
Federal environmental civil servants mobilize to reelect Lula, warning the public about environmental risks if the Bolsonaro clan returns to power. Image courtesy of Ascema Nacional.

Environmental officials fear new wave of harassment if Flavio Bolsonaro wins in Brazil

Karla Mendes 23 Oct 2026

Critics call for halt to road construction in Mexico’s Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 23 Oct 2026

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