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Amazon rainforest

March 2024

  • Composite picture of a photo of a man using a scalpel to pick at a huge crocodile-like skull, and a drawing of adolphin in brown water seizing prey

    The age of extinction
    Scientists find skull of enormous ancient dolphin in Amazon

    Fossil of giant river dolphin found in Peru, whose closest living relation is in South Asia, gives clues to future extinction threats

February 2024

  • Vagner Javaé, the chief of the Javaé people

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘In Bananal, God no longer decides whether there’s water – farmers and agribusiness do’

  • Muddy coloured river running through dense green forest

    Amazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warn

  • People punt small boats across a body of water.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘I photographed the world’: the art of Sebastião Salgado – in pictures

  • An elderly white man with a sombre face stands in a studio holding a black-and-white photograph with other prints on the wall behind him

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Photographer Sebastião Salgado at 80: ‘They say I was an aesthete of misery’

  • Brazil’s nut-breakers refuse to crack as their precious palms are threatened

  • The long read
    Forty days lost in the rainforest: Colombia’s miracle rescue

January 2024

  • Man detained by armed agent

    From the agencies
    The battle against illegal goldmining in the Amazon – in pictures

  • A man wearing a straw hat carries a water container, as behind is a river with low water level

    View from the Amazon
    Optimism dries up in Amazon as Lula drifts from climate priorities

  • Floating homes and boats stranded on the dry bed of Puraquequara lake in Brazil amid severe drought in October 2023

    Devastating drought in Amazon result of climate crisis, study shows

  • Two children jump into a small natural pool as others play in the water

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘We cannot be cowards’: the Brazilian village fighting for the right to have water

  • The nature of ...
    A piranha: it is boiling the water you’re swimming in and taking bites out of you

    Helen Sullivan

  • Valley of lost cities that flourished 2,000 years ago found in Amazon

  • The age of extinction
    Pattern found in world’s rainforests where 2% of species make up 50% of trees

  • Lula vows to win ‘war’ against illegal miners invading Indigenous lands

  • The age of extinction
    Life, death and zombie mushrooms: in search of the Amazon’s rarest fungi

December 2023

  • An illegal mining camp in Yanomami territory in February

    Illegal mining on rise again in Amazon, says Yanomami leader

  • Dredging rafts belonging to miners operating illegally on the Nanay River in Loreto, Peru.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘This river is doomed’: Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them

  • Mist above dense rainforest at dawn with the rising sun glinting on a river

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Don’t blame the trees! Saving forests is still the best way to save the planet

    John W Reid and Paulo Moutinho
  • A group of women and girls in identical dresses, straw hats, tights and sandals walk through a farmyard, with their heads down to avoid the camera

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘We live off the forest’: fears rise in Suriname as Mennonites look to settle

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