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Report urges stricter mining standards to manage climate and social impacts

What does bioeconomy truly mean? Indigenous groups seek answer to dodge capitalist traps

Top 25 most threatened primates highlighted in new report urging action

Illegal wood from Colombia’s rainforests enters US and EU supply chains

‘Puma detectives’ highlight wildlife where Brazil’s Cerrado meets the Atlantic Forest

Amazon people brace for a drier future along the endangered Madeira River

In the Pan Amazon, regulators struggle to punish environmental crimes

‘Colombia’s Amazon peoples provide solutions’: Interview with José Homero Mutumbajoy

The latest issues in Peru’s Amazon: Interview with Indigenous leader Julio Cusurichi

New report reinforces critical role of Amazonian protected areas in climate fight

In Brazil’s Jequitinhonha valley, communities share how to reduce lithium mining impacts

Eucalyptus for Brazil’s steelmaking dries out communities in Minas Gerais

Indigenous delegates at the U.N. raise alarm on isolated peoples in the Amazon

New research finds substantial peat deposits in Colombia’s conflicted Amazon

Building environmental laws across Amazon countries

Amazon illegal miners bypass enforcement by smuggling gold into Venezuela

Armed groups, cattle ranchers drove 35% rise in Colombia’s deforestation in 2024

Ecuador communities resist Canada-backed gold mine in sacred highlands

Bolivian communities push back against foreign-backed lithium projects

Still no trial over Argentina cyanide mine spill, 7 years after officials were charged

Fake documents, real deforestation drive global trade in illegal Amazon timber

Sheinbaum’s energy agenda under fire as Mexican activists slam LNG megaproject

Illegal gold mining creeps within a kilometer of Amazon’s second-tallest tree

Mongabay investigation spurs Brazil crackdown on illegal cattle in Amazon’s Arariboia territory

Nature protection is part of fundamental law in Amazon countries

Indigenous aguaje tree climbers bring down profits in Peru’s Amazon — sustainably

For scandal-ridden carbon credit industry, Amazon restoration offers redemption

What pushes Indigenous Munduruku people to mine their land in Brazil’s Amazon?

Colombia’s green transition should be inclusive: Interview with Susana Muhamad, former environment minister

Brazil is speeding-up forest fire prevention to avoid dangerous tipping points in the Amazon (commentary)

Lithium Triangle mining may strain water sources more than expected, study says

Colombian farmers switch from coffee to cacao as temperature and prices soar

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