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Environmental policy and action on the ground in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Jun 2023
A river flows through the Amazon Rainforest.

Climate change and moisture recycling in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Jun 2023

Forest ecology and carbon dynamics in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Jun 2023

The natural history of the Amazon Rainforest

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Jun 2023

Understanding the conventional economy of the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Jun 2023
Timber in Pará state and other parts of the Brazilian Amazon can bypass regulatory permits, allowing illegal wood to be sold domestically and internationally. Federal environmental agencies play an essential role in preventing this from happening, experts say.

The political economy of the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Jun 2023

The geography of environmental degradation in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Jun 2023

Drivers of environmental degradation in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Jun 2023

The state of the Amazon: Chapter 1 of “A Perfect Storm”

Timothy J. Killeen 31 May 2023

Shipibo communities create Indigenous guard to protect Peruvian Amazon from deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2023

Book: A perfect storm in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 May 2023

‘They have conned us out of our lands’: Conflict brews in Peru as Mennonite settlers clear forest

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Apr 2023

Peru national park sees deforestation spike despite carbon credit program: report

Maxwell Radwin 6 Apr 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

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
A Mongabay investigation team visited the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon where Mennonites are illegally converting pristine forests in the Peruvian Amazon into agricultural land. Image by Romi Castagnino for Mongabay.

How did a religious group take over part of the Amazon?

Romina Castagnino 8 Dec 2022
Satellite imagery from Planet Labs Inc. captured October 2022 shows several recently cleared areas in the territory of the Indigenous community of Puerto Nuevo.

Indigenous communities in Peru ‘living in fear’ due to deforestation, drug trafficking

Yvette Sierra Praeli 2 Dec 2022
Fire in the Amazon.

2022 Amazon fires tightly tied to recent deforestation, new data show

Sandra Cuffe 22 Nov 2022

Indigenous community in Peru losing forests to timber, drug, land trafficking

Yvette Sierra Praeli 21 Nov 2022

In the western Amazon, oil blocks eat away at Indigenous lands, protected areas

Yvette Sierra Praeli 24 Oct 2022
A recently contacted Machiguenga girlon the outskirts of Manu National Park in Cusco. Image by Ronald Reategui.

Amazon reserve for uncontacted people moving forward amid battle over oil fields

Dimitri Selibas 30 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022
Macaws fly over the rainforests of Peru.

Illegal logging and trade in fine wood threaten Wampis communities in the Peruvian Amazon

Enrique Vera 9 Sep 2022
Looking toward the Amazon rainforest from the Andes at sunrise. Image credit: Rhett A. Butler

Amazon cloud forests need protection (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 15 Aug 2022

Satellite data brings new insights on what drives Amazon forest loss

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2022
A spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also known as the Andean bear.

Researchers compile largest-ever photo database of Amazon wildlife

Liz Kimbrough 20 May 2022
Coca plantation on a hillside near Caranavi, western Bolivia.

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2022

Chinese investment in Latin America plagues people and nature: Report

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2022

Chocolate frog? New burrowing frog species unearthed in Amazon’s rare peatlands

Liz Kimbrough 28 Feb 2022

In a biodiversity haven, mining drives highest ever recorded levels of mercury

John Cannon 28 Feb 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

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