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Amazon rainforest

August 2024

  • An aerial view of a fire in the Amazon rainforest with smoke rising from the jungle.

    ‘Nobody ever saw anything like this before’: how methane emissions are pushing the Amazon towards environmental catastrophe

    As the world heats up, methane released from thawing permafrost and warming tropical wetlands is intensifying climate breakdown. But curbing it is achievable
  • A wide shot of people sitting and standing on the sandy bank beside a river

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Uncontacted’ Indigenous group attacks loggers in the Peruvian Amazon

    At least one person injured after clash with the reclusive Mashco Piro as pressure rises for government intervention
  • Fire illuminates smoke rising above a nighttime horizon of trees on a lake

    Wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland fuelled ‘by climate disruption’

    Devastation in Brazil wetlands was made at least four times more likely by fossil fuel use and deforestation, scientists say

July 2024

  • Cattle on a farm in Para state, Brazil.

    Brazilian rancher ordered to pay $50m for damage to Amazon

  • Graffiti reading 'PCC' is written on a yellow wall in front of a church building

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Crisis at Tres Fronteras: how criminal syndicates threaten Amazon’s future

  • people stand on the shore

    Uncontacted tribe seen in Peruvian Amazon where loggers are active

  • The National Serrania de Chiribique Park, Guaviare, Colombia, 2019.

    Deforestation in Colombia falls to lowest level in 23 years

  • The Latin oil rush
    Guyana banks on future as a ‘new Qatar’ in high-stakes gamble over oil production

  • To the end of the Amazon in Brazil: ‘there are forms of life here that I never knew existed’

June 2024

  • Rangers from Brazil’s environmental protection agency, Ibama, launch a major offensive against illegal mining gangs operating near the Javari valley Indigenous territory, where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed. Photo by João Laet / The Guardian

    ‘Tomorrow’s our D-day’: on the frontline of the fight to save the Amazon

  • Nemonte Nenquimo

    Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him – again

    Nemonte Nenquimo
  • View above the Amazon rainforest

    World’s top banks ‘greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon’

  • A female widow holds hands with indigenous people encircling a tree

    ‘We want to forge ahead’: grief and defiance as Dom Phillips’ widow journeys to site of his death

May 2024

  • Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo, carries her people’s lawsuit in her hands during a march towards the Provincial courthouse in Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon.

    Book of the day
    We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson review – voice of the Amazon

    There’s great joy as well as pain in this luminous story of Indigenous life and the battle against exploitation
  • Nemonte Nenquimo

    ‘I want people to wake up’: Nemonte Nenquimo on growing up in the rainforest and her fight to save it

    The Indigenous campaigner won a historic legal victory to protect Waorani land in the Amazon rainforest. Now she has written a groundbreaking memoir

    • More than third of Amazon rainforest struggling to recover from drought, study finds

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      ‘Just by breathing we are contaminated’: schoolgirls fight to extinguish Ecuador’s gas flares

    • Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds

April 2024

  • View of tree tops in the jungle

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

  • Beto Marubo and Bruno Pereira speaking with the Indigenous peoples of the Korubo tribe in the Javari valley, in 2015.

    Epidemic fears as 80% of Indigenous Amazon tribe fall ill

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