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Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020

Weak policy oversight could be pushing Brazilian forests closer to a tipping point

Meghie Rodrigues 28 Dec 2020

New innovations to clean up the impacts of mining

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2020

Traditional and Indigenous peoples ‘denounce’ planned Amazon railway

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 23 Dec 2020
The Amazon near Manaus, Brazil. Image by Neil Palmer/CIAT via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Soy moratorium averted New Jersey-size loss of Amazon rainforest: Study

John Cannon 23 Dec 2020

Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Dec 2020

Historical analysis: The Amazon’s mineral wealth — curse or blessing?

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 21 Dec 2020
Deforestation on the United Cacao plantation in 2013. Photo by Leoncio Ramirez via Panoramio.

Peruvian court absolves cacao company of illegal Amazon deforestation after “lobbying effort”

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2020

Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award

Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2020

In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice

Francesca García Delgado, Vanessa Romo 18 Dec 2020

Nazareth Cabrera fights for Colombia’s Indigenous Uitoto with the strength of her words

Carol Sánchez 17 Dec 2020

Belo Monte dam’s water demands imperil Amazon communities, environment

Tiffany Higgins 16 Dec 2020

In the Colombian Amazon, a leader trains her people to save the forest

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 16 Dec 2020
Degraded forests are highly susceptible to fires set by ranchers and farmers. This August 2019 is burning into degraded forest from a recently cleared area. Image © Fábio Nascimento.

Lasers reveal steep decline in ecosystem function of degraded Amazon forests

Tess Joosse 16 Dec 2020

Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study

Shanna Hanbury 15 Dec 2020

‘She goes and helps’: Noemí Gualinga, Ecuador’s mother of the jungle

Mayuri Castro 13 Dec 2020

Brazilians impacted by mining assert: ‘Genocide legalized by the state’

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 10 Dec 2020

Colombian environmental official assassinated in southern Meta department

Antonio José Paz Cardona 7 Dec 2020

As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy

Jenny Gonzales 4 Dec 2020

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

Ana Ionova 3 Dec 2020

French Guiana soy biofuel power plants risk massive Amazon deforestation

Justin Catanoso 2 Dec 2020

Unprecedented sightings of maned wolves in Amazon herald a changing landscape

Sibélia Zanon 2 Dec 2020
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation tops 11,000 sq km in Brazil, reaching 12-year high

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2020

Indigenous leader who fought for communities and conservation mourned in Peru

Anna-Catherine Brigida 25 Nov 2020

Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Lucas Ferrante, Aurora M. Yanai, Marcos Antonio Isaac Júnior 24 Nov 2020

The Amazon’s Yanomami utterly abandoned by Brazilian authorities: Report

Sue Branford 19 Nov 2020

Multiplying Amazon river ports open new Brazil-to-China commodities routes

Manuela Andreoni, Diàlogo Chino 19 Nov 2020

‘CSI Amazon’: Epic study looks at what’s killing the rainforest’s trees

Liz Kimbrough 18 Nov 2020
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

As 2020 Amazon fire season winds down, Brazil carbon emissions rise

Liz Kimbrough 16 Nov 2020

Brazil’s Bem Querer dam: An impending Amazon disaster (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 16 Nov 2020

Conserve freshwater or land biodiversity? Why not both, new study asks

Claire Asher 16 Nov 2020
Burnt forest, in Porto Velho, Rondônia state. 18 Aug, 2020 CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation shoots higher in October, reversing 3-month trend

Mongabay.com 14 Nov 2020

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