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Amazon rainforest

December 2023

  • Portrait of Colombia's president Gustavo Petro in conversation

    The age of extinction
    Middle-class fear of green policies fuels rise of far right, Colombia’s Petro warns

  • Dom Phillips.

    Murdered journalist Dom Phillips’ unfinished book to be published in 2025

November 2023

  • Strangler fig overgrown ruin, Ficus sp., Coastal rainforest, Mata Atlantica, Bahia, Brazil South America<br>2R2G0CW Strangler fig overgrown ruin, Ficus sp., Coastal rainforest, Mata Atlantica, Bahia, Brazil South America

    Verdant Inferno/A Scabby Black Brazilian by Alberto Rangel/ Jean-Christophe Goddard review – an Amazonian beauty

    Two republished titles sharing the same cover – one a Brazilian classic, the other a philosophical blurring of genres – deliver head-spinning insights into life in the rainforest
  • Detail of the hand on the trunk of a tree

    The great carbon divide
    ‘It is all about listening and sharing’: Indigenous solutions to the carbon divide

    Deforestation rates are much lower on Indigenous land – and there is growing recognition that first peoples have vital role to play

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      ‘Leave the gold in the ground’: Ecuador’s forest guardians mobilise against illegal mining in Amazon

    • Science Weekly
      Why is the Amazon rainforest drying up? – podcast

    • View from the Amazon
      ‘Everything is parched’: Amazon struggles with drought amid deforestation

October 2023

  • The historic drought wreaking havoc on Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has reduced the mighty Rio Negro to a mere trickle, endangering the livelihoods of isolated Indigenous and riverside communities

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘For us, the Amazon isn’t a cause, it’s our home’: the riverside communities stranded by the climate crisis

  • Aerial view of triggered forest fire and deforestation for plating soybeans in Amazon rainforest

    Deforestation has big impact on regional temperatures, study of Brazilian Amazon shows

  • An aerial view of an illegal gold mine in Triangulo de Telembi, Colombia.

    Environmental crime money easy to stash in US due to loopholes, report finds

  • Ancient carvings on Amazon river rock exposed by falling water level during drought in Manaus<br>A view of ancient stone carvings on a rocky point of the Amazon river that were exposed after water levels dropped to record lows during a drought in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil October 23, 2023. REUTERS/Suamy Beydoun

    Ancient rock carvings revealed by receding Amazon waters amid drought

  • Polluted, violent and ablaze: the real Brazilian rainforest – in pictures

  • Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia

  • The age of extinction
    The lost world: Venezuela’s unique tepui frogs face new perils

  • Our unequal earth
    ‘Our world hangs by a thread’: Indigenous activist asks US agri giant to stop destroying Amazon rainforest

  • Indigenous Amazonians urge Brazil to declare emergency over severe drought

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Criminals without borders: the transnational gangs terrorising the Amazon

  • Lost ‘holy grail’ film of life in Brazil’s Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces

  • Animals farmed
    Top grain traders ‘helped scupper’ ban on soya from deforested land

  • South American monsoon heading towards ‘tipping point’ likely to cause Amazon dieback

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