Amazon Rainforest

The world has a new way to make money from the Amazon. Indigenous peoples and traditional communities could find themselves serving a more hostile economy.

Brazil is betting the Amazon can be protected by making forests economically valuable - but will commercial use stay within the ecological limits?

Brazil is a global testing ground for green finance, regenerative agriculture and forest restoration. The concentration of influence deserves attention.

Beneath Brazil's forests, farms and cities, a vital water reserve is showing signs of strain.

The war the world refuses to recognise is unfolding in the Amazon.

The Amazon is being drawn into financial systems that reshape how nature is valued, and how success is measured.

Indigenous leaders, traditional communities and researchers are resisting development in the Amazon rainforest that could push its ecosystems past irreversible tipping points.

COP30 countdown: the banks financing the Amazon’s oil addiction.

The BR-319 threatens the Amazon in the name of ‘progress’ and politics.

World on course to trigger multiple climate tipping points unless action accelerates.

BR-319: Paving the way for Indigenous displacement and environmental catastrophe.

BR-319: A highway to climate chaos in the heart of the Amazon.

'Illegal loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers arrive once roads are bulldozed into rainforests.'

Lucas Ferrante uncovered the impacts of the proposed BR-319 highway in the Amazon rainforest: it could trigger biome collapse and biodiversity crisis.

'The preservation of the Amazon isn't just about protecting nature - it's about safeguarding our own health.'

Malnutrition and chronic disease are impacting remote Amazonian tribes because of an influx of ultra-processed foods.

Hugo Blanco (15 November 1934 – 25 June 2023) fought every day of his life for the poor and for the environment. We can learn from him.

Ecuador's successful referendum should protect vital biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest.

A groundbreaking documentary sheds light on the urgent need to make ecocide a crime and protect indigenous territories in the Brazilian Amazon.

A train line brings workers - and COVID-19 - to the Awa Guajá community, threatening their survival. Part 2 of 2.

A visit to the Awa Guajá where people have died from sadness as well as guns since their land became a freight line for the world’s biggest iron-ore mine. Part 1 of 2.

Phosphorus exhaustion limits Amazon's growth rate as CO2 rises, making the rainforest less resilient to climate breakdown.

The world’s forests are being destroyed against a background of corruption, illegality and apathy.

Experts fear the Amazon is reaching tipping point, triggering dieback and major impacts for biodiversity and climate breakdown.