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Cacao production in the Amazon (source FAPESP)

Scaling up the Amazon’s many bioeconomies requires investment in nature, prosperity, and inclusion (commentary)

Katherine Aguirre, Peter Smith, Robert Muggah 8 Aug 2024

In Brazil’s Pantanal, women find empowerment working with nature’s bounty

Marion Frank 8 Aug 2024

Mining gold in the greenstone belt of Panamazonia

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Aug 2024
Fraser Valley as seen from Sumas Mountain.

Climate change could return a stolen lake to Indigenous people, a century later

Olivia Ferrari 7 Aug 2024
Luís Adriano Nascimento, chemist and vice-coordinator of the Laboratório de Óleos da Amazônia (Amazon Oils Laboratory, LOA), stands at a lab bench with a wide collection of Amazonian fruits and seeds used to make oils, biofuels and bioplastics.

Raw materials become high-value bioeconomy goods at an Amazon science park

Sarah Brown 6 Aug 2024
The Kaapori capuchin, (Cebus kaapori), one of the world’s most critically endangered primates. Image by Ricardo Ferreira Esteves via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Brazil’s Amazon, land invasions — and fires — threaten a protected reserve

Ana Ionova 5 Aug 2024

In a fight to save a rare bird, Indigenous communities in Guyana are winning

Carla Ruas 5 Aug 2024

As climate change shakes up global map of venomous snakes, health risks abound

Suzana Camargo 5 Aug 2024
A man walks past solar panels.

No plans, no progress make Peru’s energy transition uncertain

Yvette Sierra Praeli 1 Aug 2024

Expanding the colonization of the Brazilian Amazon through gold mining

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Aug 2024

Tía María copper mine set to open in Peru despite community backlash

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jul 2024
The Cerrado biome landscape.

Cerrado’s current drought impossible without human-caused climate change: Study

Molly Herring 31 Jul 2024

New Indigenous reserve in the Amazon among first steps to protect peoples in isolation

Astrid Arellano 31 Jul 2024

Hydropower plants disrupt fishers’ lives in Amazon’s most biodiverse river basin

Kevin Damasio 31 Jul 2024
Hymenaea courbaril

Time for a copal comeback? The natural resin could boost Amazon’s economy

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jul 2024
Ailton Krenak

It’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with Indigenous author Ailton Krenak

Jaqueline Sordi 30 Jul 2024
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

New relatives of the cacao tree uncovered in old plant collections

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jul 2024
Dozens of isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

After isolated tribes’ rare appearance in Peruvian Amazon, big questions remain for their future

Dan Collyns 29 Jul 2024
Adriane Esquivel Muelbert and Evan Gora examine a fallen giant tree in the Amazon, hoping to identify hints of its cause of death.

Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate

Daniel Grossman 29 Jul 2024

DNA testing proves that cocoa originated in the Amazon and reveals robust pre-Columbian trade

Sibélia Zanon 29 Jul 2024

Brazil’s wildcat mining is deeply rooted in its politics and thirst for minerals

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Jul 2024

The Amazon’s most fertile forests are also most vulnerable to drought: Study

Claire Asher 26 Jul 2024
Madre de Dios in the Peruvian Amazon observed the extent of river damage due to gold mining.

Gold mining in the Amazon has doubled in area since 2018, AI tool shows

Fernanda Wenzel 26 Jul 2024

Peruvian bills could imperil marine biodiversity & artisanal fishing, experts say

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Jul 2024

Short on funds and long on risk, Venezuelan conservation groups worry for future

Maxwell Radwin 25 Jul 2024

Indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon combat droughts and floods

Iván Paredes Tamayo 25 Jul 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Venezuela’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2024

To host 2025 climate summit, Brazil will carve up an Amazonian reserve

Sarah Brown 23 Jul 2024

Minerals for agricultural use can already be found in Amazonia

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Jul 2024

Ecuador’s Indigenous Cofán show how to have your turtle and eat it too

Astrid Arellano 17 Jul 2024
Mercury being used to agglomerate gold.

Report reveals widespread use of smuggled mercury in Amazon gold mining

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Jul 2024
A Spix’s macaw at São Paulo Zoo in Brazil. The species’ return to its native habitat, from which it was declared extinct, has been bittersweet: the rewilding program has been a technical success, but bureaucratic wrangling threatens to stall future releases. Image courtesy of São Paulo Zoo. Used in article 'Institutional conflict puts successful Spix’s macaw reintroduction at risk'.

Institutional conflict puts successful Spix’s macaw reintroduction at risk

Bernardo Araujo 16 Jul 2024

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