The Peruvian Amazon is the world’s fourth largest tropical rainforest and an important biodiversity hotspot. But as usual, people are putting financial gain over preserving endemic and endangered species. As the price of...
The bidding war begins; Brazil, whose government once described climate action as a "Marxist Conspiracy", is happy to stop chopping down the Amazon if they get a share of Biden's two trillion dollar "stimulus".
Large parcels of land in the Amazon rainforest are being sold illegally on Facebook. According to a recent investigation carried out by the BBC, Facebook Marketplace ads are being used to sell land in Brazil's portion of...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has risen to a 12-year high in 2020, according to data released by Inpe, the national space research agency in Brazil...
Huge road, energy and mining projects driving into heart of world’s remaining forests
A new study published in the journal Nature Communications indicates that the Amazon rainforest could shift from a closed canopy rainforest to an open savanna due to the climate crisis...
People around the world have watched with increasing horror as Amazon forest destruction has accelerated in recent years. Now, U.K. officials have proposed a law to make large companies operating within the U.K....
Recently opened in the Brazilian city of São Paulo and designed by local architecture and design practice VAGA, the Cajuí Restaurant offers a menu of vegan, organic and natural ingredients supplied by small farmers from...
Ecuadorian indigenous groups hope innovation will reduce amount of oil taken from forest only to be brought back as pollution
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) recently published its International Statistic of the Decade, and the “winner” was the stark statistic that the Amazon lost 24,000 square miles of rainforest...
Operator faces choice of weakening 14km barrier or potentially devastating a biodiversity hotspot
Operator faces choice of weakening 14km barrier or potentially devastating a biodiversity hotspot
Relentless Amazon deforestation and gross mishandling of the region by Brazilian authorities and agricultural advocates are pushing the world’s largest tropical rainforest closer to the brink of catastrophic ecological...
Film by Swedish activist and Guardian journalist George Monbiot says nature must be used to repair broken climate
In part three of our series, the Siona people stress opposition to any operations on their territory
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