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Mexico’s Tren Maya hotel construction clears forest reserve without permits

Maxwell Radwin 29 Mar 2023
A Quilombolas man lights candles in the cemetery.

RSPO suspension of Brazil palm oil exporter tied to Mongabay land-grabbing report

Karla Mendes 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
Burned peat forest in Borneo.

Deforestation drives fire risk in Borneo amid a warming climate, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 27 Mar 2023
A river flows through the Amazon Rainforest.

Tropical forest regeneration offsets 26% of carbon emissions from deforestation

Jaqueline Sordi 23 Mar 2023

UN denounces new attacks on Indigenous people in Nicaragua’s largest reserve

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2023
Illegal mining areas inside Yanomami land near the Mucajaí River.

Brazil tackles illegal miners, but finds their mercury legacy harder to erase

Sean Mowbray 16 Mar 2023
A logging truck through deforested lands.

Make it local: Deforestation link to less Amazon rainfall tips activism shift

Sarah Brown 14 Mar 2023

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

Maxwell Radwin 10 Mar 2023
Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon Rainforest.

Amazon deforestation linked to reduced Tibetan snows, Antarctic ice loss: Study

Claire Asher 8 Mar 2023
An oil palm plantation and natural forest in Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Conservationists decry palm oil giants’ exit from HCSA forest protection group

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Mar 2023
Children relaxing in the clear water of a shallow river in Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo. Image by Pieter Henket (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Deforestation threatens local populations in Republic of Congo’s Sangha

Lawon Olalekan 6 Mar 2023
Since the beginning of the operation, government environmental agents have been destroying the logistical support of illegal mining, such as an airplane, a helicopter and a tractor, and have seized weapons and boats. Image courtesy of IBAMA by Ricardo Campos.

Lula government scrambles to overcome Yanomami crisis, but hurdles remain

Jenny Gonzales 6 Mar 2023

Climate change lawsuits take aim at French bank BNP Paribas

Maxwell Radwin 3 Mar 2023
Part of a Yanomami community.

Yanomami crisis sparks action against illegal gold in the Amazon

André Schröder 28 Feb 2023

Chinese investment continues to hurt Latin American ecosystems, report says

Maxwell Radwin 28 Feb 2023
Cows in Terra do Meio Ecological Station.

In Brazil, criminals dismantle one of the best-preserved swaths of the Amazon

Ana Ionova 23 Feb 2023
Sentinel-2A lift off.

France seeks EU okay to fund biomass plants, burn Amazon forest to power Spaceport

Justin Catanoso 23 Feb 2023

Companies, big banks are still lagging on deforestation regulations: report

Maxwell Radwin 20 Feb 2023
Deforestation in the Amazon.

The $20m flip: The story of the largest land grab in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 14 Feb 2023

US pledges Amazon Fund donation, renewing hope for the rainforest

Sarah Brown 13 Feb 2023

Mapping of no-drill areas in Ecuador’s Amazon can be scaled for entire rainforest: Study

Maurício Brum, Sílvia Lisboa 13 Feb 2023
Marina Silva and Lula in a meeting with local leaders.

Lula’s government must go far beyond undoing Bolsonaro policies on Amazon forest & Indigenous rights (commentary)

Rodolfo Nóbrega, Ed Atkins 9 Feb 2023

New reserve in Ecuador secures over 3 million acres of forest

Maxwell Radwin 9 Feb 2023
A margay.

Forest loss may push tree-dependent marbled cats into threatened category

Sean Mowbray 8 Feb 2023

Amazonian countries must act together to reverse rainforest loss, experts say

Jenny Gonzales 7 Feb 2023
Mining rafts and dredges on the Puré River.

Illegal mines and “floating towns” on the Puré River leave uncontacted Indigenous peoples at risk

Pilar Puentes 6 Feb 2023

JBS is accused of misleading investors with suspicious green bonds

Fernanda Wenzel 1 Feb 2023

Indigenous communities threatened as deforestation rises in Nicaraguan reserves

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jan 2023

Liberian courts rubber-stamp export shipment of illegal logs

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Jan 2023

Logging threats loom over tree kangaroo refuge in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 25 Jan 2023

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