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The Human-Modified Landscapes (HML) and the Brazilian highway network

Timothy J. Killeen 26 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

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

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

The largest land set-aside in history

Timothy J. Killeen 29 Jun 2023

Environmental governance in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Jun 2023

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

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

Book: A perfect storm in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 May 2023
Spangled cotinga in Guyana. Image by Mathias Appel via Flickr (CC0 1.0).

Questions over accounting and inclusion mar Guyana’s unprecedented carbon scheme

Dimitri Selibas 28 Apr 2023
Oil production vessel Liza Destiny 200 km offshore of Guyana in the Stabroek block. Image via www.oilnow.gy.

Guyana gets ‘Drilled’: Weighing South America’s latest oil boom with Amy Westervelt

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Apr 2023
animals

Population cycles explain white-lipped peccary’s ups and downs, study shows

Mark Hillsdon 6 Dec 2022
river forest

Deforestation is pushing Amazon to ‘point of no return’: WWF report

Maxwell Radwin 9 Nov 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

‘The water is brown’: Community in Guyana rings the alarm over unsustainable mining near river

David Papannah, Laurel Sutherland 11 Aug 2022

Does citizen ownership of natural resources hold the key to realizing deforestation commitments? (commentary)

Han Overman 6 Jun 2022

Oil production or carbon neutrality? Why not both, Guyana says

Carinya Sharples 12 Jan 2022
Mapping activities Indigenous

Guyanese project to bolster Indigenous land rights draws funding — and flak

Carinya Sharples 23 Dec 2021
Small-scale gold mining

Secrecy shrouds new gold mining deal in Guyana’s Marudi mountains

Laurel Sutherland 22 Dec 2021

In Guyana, saving an Indigenous language from dying out with its last speakers

Alva Solomon 21 Dec 2021
The Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The political economy of the Pan-Amazon (book excerpt)

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Apr 2021

Exposing organized crime in the Amazon: Q&A with Robert Muggah of the Igarapé Institute

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2021
Photo: The newly discovered orchid, Epidendrum katarun-yariku. Image courtesy of Mateusz Wrazidlo.

New orchid species from Guiana Highlands named by Indigenous group

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jan 2021

Guyana’s future and challenges in oil: Q&A with filmmaker Shane Thomas McMillan

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

Amazon gold mining wipes out rainforest regeneration for years: Study

Taran Volckhausen 4 Aug 2020

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