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Hundreds of oil spill sites threaten Amazon Indigenous lands, protected areas

Cristina Fernández Aguilar 12 Sep 2023

The future of hydropower in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Sep 2023
Hydroelectric dam in Baños, Ecuador. Photo by Eric Chan/Flickr.

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: An overview of the private energy sector in Ecuador and China’s role

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Sep 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: A look at the private energy sector in Peru

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Sep 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Bolivia seeks an energy export model

Timothy J. Killeen 30 Aug 2023
Tachymenoides harrisonfordi

It had to be a snake: New species from Peru named after Harrison Ford

Liz Kimbrough 29 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Río Trombetas and Calha Norte

Timothy J. Killeen 29 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: The Tapajós Basin and the prevalence of Indigenous rights

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Belo Monte and the Río Xingu

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: The Madeira Hydropower Complex

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Tucuruí and the Tocantins Cascade

Timothy J. Killeen 16 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: The Guri complex and the Caroni Cascade

Timothy J. Killeen 11 Aug 2023

The oil debt: More than 6,000 polluted sites fester across Amazonian countries

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo, Yvette Sierra Praeli 11 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: A shift toward reduced impact facilities, but the controversy continues

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Aug 2023

Infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: The Guiana Shield and the Coastal Plain

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Aug 2023

Infrastructure in the Andean Amazon: The Carretera Marginal de la Selva

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Aug 2023

JPMorgan, Citi named among top financiers of Amazon oil and gas projects

Maxwell Radwin 1 Aug 2023

The Andean republics of the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Jul 2023

The Human-Modified Landscapes (HML) and the Brazilian highway network

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Jul 2023
An Andean motmot.

‘What we need to protect and why’: 20-year Amazon research hints at fate of tropics

Justin Catanoso 24 Jul 2023

Roads are primary vectors of deforestation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Jul 2023

Infrastructure defines the future: Chapter 2 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Jul 2023

Drug trafficking fuels other deforestation drivers in the Amazon: report

Maxwell Radwin 14 Jul 2023

Current policy approaches in the Amazon: certainly necessary, but are they sufficient?

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Jul 2023

The challenge of the future (and lessons from the recent past) in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Jul 2023

Monetizing nature: The under-explored power of the Amazon’s natural capital

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Jul 2023

The biologist working to save Peru’s yellow-tailed monkey: Q&A with Fanny Cornejo

Astrid Arellano 7 Jul 2023

An Indigenous revival in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Jul 2023

Fishing, dams and dredging close in on Peru’s river dolphins, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jul 2023
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Bill stripping Peru’s isolated Indigenous people of land and protections scrapped

Dimitri Selibas 5 Jul 2023

Birds and bats help Peruvian cacao farmers gain higher yields, study says

Liz Kimbrough 4 Jul 2023
A washed-up egg case of a ray.

Tangled in marine debris, skate egg cases dry up and die on Peruvian beaches

Michelle Carrere 30 Jun 2023

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