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Emergent tree in the Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Climate change drives uneven shifts in tree diversity across Amazon and Andes

Constance Malleret 27 Feb 2026

Bolivia Indigenous communities, local gov’ts help protect nearly 1 million hectares

Maxwell Radwin 6 Feb 2026

Across Latin America populist regimes challenge nature conservation goals

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Dec 2025

In Guyana and Suriname, offshore oil and environmental interests clash

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Dec 2025
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In the Amazon, political systems fail to prioritize the environment

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Nov 2025
Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo stands next to an oil spill near Shushufindi

These banks fund oil & gas in the Amazon amid climate crisis: Report

Constance Malleret 4 Nov 2025

Amid systemic corruption, Amazon countries struggle to fight environmental crime

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2025

The rise of anti-corruption prosecutors in the Amazon region

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2025

The fate of flying rivers could decide Amazon ‘tipping point,’ report says

Maxwell Radwin 26 Sep 2025
JBS founder José Batista Sobrinho (center) flanked by his sons, Joesley (taking a selfie) and Wesley (clapping), waves from the podium after ringing the New York Stock Exchange opening bell, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Richard Drew.

Now on Wall Street, JBS eyes growth amid scrutiny on deforestation & graft

Carla Ruas 17 Jul 2025

Study unveils mystery of monkey yodeling — and why humans can’t compete

Liz Kimbrough 16 May 2025
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Fake documents, real deforestation drive global trade in illegal Amazon timber

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Apr 2025

Chinese business in the Amazon generates controversy

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Mar 2025

Brazil’s SUDAM scandal, a case of government-backed deforestation

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Mar 2025
Artwork of the ponds described in the paper. . These ponds were part od a sophisticated irrigation system that allowed for year-round corn growing.

Study unearths sophisticated year-round corn-growing system in ancient Bolivian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 27 Feb 2025

Political nepotism and elected clans in the Brazilian Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Feb 2025
On February 12, activists and riverside residents posted on Guajará Bay in Belém, the host city for this year’s UN climate conference COP30, with banners saying ‘President Lula, don’t trade the Amazon for oil’. Image © Eliseu Pereira / 350.org

Lula pushes oil drilling at mouth of Amazon despite climate risks

Sarah Brown 21 Feb 2025

The Pan Amazon as a hotspot of cultural diversity

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Feb 2025
An aerial image shows rainforest fragmented by cattle ranching.

Study shows degradation changes a forest’s tree profile and its carbon storage

Peter Speetjens 22 Jan 2025

Indigenous communities come together to protect the Colombian Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 8 Jan 2025

‘Time is water’: A cross-border Indigenous alliance works to save the Amazon

Francesc Badia i Dalmases 23 Dec 2024

The fuel that moves people: the Ecuadorian case

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Dec 2024

Peru’s modern history of migration and settlement

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Dec 2024

The calm before the storm: The first half of the 20th century in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Nov 2024

Evolution of the Pan Amazon in the post-Jesuit era

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2024

In Colombia, guerrilla groups decide the fate of the Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 31 Oct 2024

Petroperú’s financial troubles could mean no oil spill remediation, communities fear

Aimee Gabay 15 Aug 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

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

Claire Asher 26 Jul 2024

Brasil, Venezuela and Peru: the geography of industrial metals

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Jul 2024

Weak banking regulations leave two-thirds of Amazon vulnerable to oil and gas

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jun 2024

Ecuador’s Los Lobos narcotrafficking gang muscles in on illegal gold mining

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 28 May 2024

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