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

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Aug 2023

Protecting the Amazon requires fresh thinking, veteran ecologist argues

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Aug 2023
Rainforest in the upper Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Amazon deforestation continues to fall under Lula

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2023

Amazon Summit sparks hope for coordinated efforts from the rainforest nations

Sarah Brown 4 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

AI unlocks secrets of Amazon river dolphins’ behavior, no tagging required

Liz Kimbrough 1 Aug 2023
Hawks fly along BR230 in the iTerêrim Marmelos Indigenous Territory in Amazonas. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazonia Real via Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.0).

In Brazil’s Amazon, a ‘new agricultural frontier’ threatens protected lands

Ana Ionova 27 Jul 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
Ibama seizes a shipment of illegally extracted Ipê

Study confirms surge in deforestation in Indigenous lands under Bolsonaro

Jenny Gonzales 21 Jul 2023
The Amazon rainforest in Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Why should funding Amazon forest sustainability be the world’s top priority? (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper, Mariana Senna, Ricardo Politi 20 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

Despite lawsuit, Casino Group still sells beef from Amazonian Indigenous territory

Fábio Bispo / InfoAmazonia 13 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

Six months on, the Yanomami crisis continues amid rising violence

Charles Lyons 11 Jul 2023
Deforestation in the Amazon in 2023. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Six months into Lula’s presidency, Amazon deforestation is dropping rapidly

Mongabay.com 7 Jul 2023

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

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Jul 2023

An Indigenous revival in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Jul 2023

A standing Amazon Rainforest could create an $8 billion bioeconomy: Study

Sarah Brown 4 Jul 2023

Climate emergency may channel millions in resources toward corn-based ethanol in the Amazon

Fábio Bispo, O Joio e o Trigo 3 Jul 2023

What can the U.K. do to fight its dependence on soy?

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jun 2023

The largest land set-aside in history

Timothy J. Killeen 29 Jun 2023

Brazil nut harvesting proves a win-win for forest and community livelihood

Carolina Pinheiro 29 Jun 2023

Environmental governance in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Jun 2023

As one Brazilian state takes up carbon trading, others may fall for the ‘illusion’

Sarah Brown 27 Jun 2023

The Amazon saw record deforestation last year. Here’s why.

Maxwell Radwin 27 Jun 2023

Environmental policy and action on the ground in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Jun 2023

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