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Argentina’s elephant seals face 100-year recovery after avian flu devastation: Study

Astrid Arellano 20 Aug 2025
The paving of the BR-319 highway would open the Amazon to further deforestation, affecting Brazil's rain cycle and endangering Indigenous communities. Image courtesy of the National Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT).

Brazil’s new licensing accord is a gateway to forest destruction via the BR-319 highway (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Aug 2025

Fate of iconic, and endangered, Brazilwood pits musical tradition against conservation

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Aug 2025

Norway pledges more direct funding to support Indigenous peoples in Brazil

Aimee Gabay 19 Aug 2025
Venezuela Oil License

Venezuela tries an environmental rebrand, but critics aren’t buying it

Maxwell Radwin 19 Aug 2025
View of Chiribiquete National Park.

Deforestation & illegal roads advancing fast in Colombia’s largest natural area

Iván Paredes Tamayo 19 Aug 2025
A flowering shoot of jambu.

Amazon jambu blends tradition and science for numbing flavors and healthcare

Sarah Brown 18 Aug 2025

Argentina pushes pipeline exports through protected Patagonian waters

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 18 Aug 2025
James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green hydrogen development threatens wildlife in Chile

Manuel Fonseca 18 Aug 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Bolivia’s upcoming elections?

Maxwell Radwin 15 Aug 2025

Brazil’s Forestry Code seeks to strengthen forest conservation, but controversies remain

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Aug 2025

New charges added in Argentina’s largest-ever wildlife case as key defendant attempts to flee the country

Ana Cristina Alvarado 14 Aug 2025
Shark meat on sale in Brazil is labeled as “cação,” a generic term whose true meaning is unknown to most Brazilians, surveys show.

Brazil’s shark meat problem

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2025
Indigenous participants at the Free Land Camp on April 10, where they discuss rights, territorial protection, and their role in COP30. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

Indigenous alliance unveils Brazil’s first Native-led emissions strategy

Aimee Gabay 9 Aug 2025

How a gecko species defied extinction on a Galápagos island

Liz Kimbrough 8 Aug 2025
Although operations like Green Shield are useful, experts say that they are not the solution for combatting illicit activities in the Amazon in the long run, as activities such as illegal mining continue to expand. Image courtesy of the UAE Ministry of Interior.

Formalizing small-scale gold mining can reduce environmental impacts & crime (commentary)

Robert Muggah 7 Aug 2025

Revealed: Brazilian state buys endangered angelsharks for school lunches

Fernanda Wenzel, Philip Jacobson 7 Aug 2025

Strategies against deforestation across the Amazon Basin

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Aug 2025

Restoration brings back fresh water, wildlife to degraded páramos in Ecuador

Ana Cristina Alvarado 7 Aug 2025
mining equipment on fire

Cross-border operation cracks down on environmental crimes in the Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 6 Aug 2025
Lúcio Flávio Pinto

Lúcio Flávio Pinto: The Brazilian reporter who wouldn’t be bought or silenced

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Aug 2025
Torres in the Amazon in 2024. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

She built a newsroom across 7 countries—Here’s how she did it

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2025
Deforestation for oil palm plantation in Borneo, Indonesia.

Reversing deforestation relies on resource ownership (commentary)

Douglas Southgate and Brent Sohngen 5 Aug 2025
Park guide Luana Wanessa Assunção points at the remarkable Painel do Pilão, which could be the first-ever solar calendar of the Americas. Image by Peter Speetjens.

Soy crops squeeze Amazon park with 11,000-year-old rock paintings in Brazil

Peter Speetjens 4 Aug 2025

Centralized governance in the Guianas and economic legacy

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Aug 2025

Ecuador axes environment ministry as officials scramble to revive economy

Maxwell Radwin 1 Aug 2025
A red-lored amazon.

DNA research changes the fate of the most trafficked parrots in Colombia

Ana Cristina Alvarado 1 Aug 2025
An Indigenous group in a boat in the Ucayali River.

Recently contacted Indigenous in Peru want REDD+ and conservationists to stay away

Kimberley Brown 31 Jul 2025
Miners work at a legal mining concession in Huaypetue, Madre de Dios, Peru. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Mexico’s rising mercury trade fuels toxic gold mining in Latin America: Report

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2025
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More than 10,000 species on brink of extinction need urgent action: Study

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jul 2025

That ‘fish’ on the menu? In Brazil’s schools and prisons, it’s often shark

Philip Jacobson | Karla Mendes | Kuang Keng Kuek Ser 29 Jul 2025

Scientists & communities rush to save rare, diverse Brazilian grassland ecosystem

Letícia Klein 29 Jul 2025

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