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Amazon Rainforest

A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge

The ultra-sophisticated port north of Lima will revolutionize global trade, but it’s already sparking destructive new routes through the world’s most climate-critical ecosystem.

By Georgina Gustin

 The cranes of a new megaport tower behind the town of Chancay, Peru. Credit: Cris Bouroncle/AFP via Getty Images
The Interoceanic Highway runs by an illegal gold mining site in La Pampa, Peru. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

When a Road Goes Wrong

By Georgina Gustin
A degraded area of the Amazon rainforest near Koatinemo Indigenous land in Brazil on June 12. Credit: Carlos Fabal/AFP via Getty Images

A New Tropical Forest Fund Will Pay Countries, Locals and Indigenous Tribes to Protect Their Trees

Interview by Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering, Living on Earth
More than 90 species of reef fish, including the commercially important southern red snapper, depend on the Great Amazon Reef System, where they feed and shelter in its crevices and caves. Credit: Greenpeace Brazil

As COP30 Unfolds in the Amazon, Brazil Is Drilling for Oil Near the Great Amazon Reef System

By Teresa Tomassoni
Zuly Rivera, a water defender and youth coordinator for the Nasa pueblo, stands at the Caliyacu River in Mocoa, Colombia.

Global Rush for Copper Hits the Amazon

Story by Dylan Baddour, photos by Tom Laffay
Waorani Indigenous people march in Quito, Ecuador, against new oil fields in the Amazon region on May 13. Credit: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images

Will COP30 Finally Prioritize Indigenous Voices?

By Liza Gross
Micaela Huaman Fernandez, an Asháninka stingless beekeeper, inspects a hive of Tetragonisca angustula bees. Credit: Teresa Tomassoni/Inside Climate News

Defending Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon

By Teresa Tomassoni
Members of CONAIE observe a moment of silence honoring Efraín Fueres on Monday in Quito, Ecuador. Credit: Franklin Jacome/Agencia Press South via Getty Images

Indigenous Land Defender Killed in Ecuador as Government Cracks Down on Environmental and Human Rights Activists

By Katie Surma
A Wayana Indigenous man sits on the embankment of the Maroni River in Southern French Guiana. Credit: Benoit Virginie

Deforestation Threatens Public Health. Securing Indigenous Land Rights Can Help, Researchers Find

By Katie Surma
A camp and crops are seen in the proposed Yavarí Mirim Indigenous Reserve region in 2021. Credit: Courtesy of ORPIO

Peru Votes Against Creating New Indigenous Reserve in Amazon Region

By Nicholas Kusnetz
An illegal deforestation camp is seen on Isconahua indigenous land in Peru’s Amazon region. Credit: Courtesy of ORPIO

Peru to Consider New Reserve for Uncontacted Indigenous People

By Nicholas Kusnetz
An officer of the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources takes part in an operation against Amazon deforestation at an illegal mining camp known in the Yanomami of Brazil on Feb. 24, 2023. Credit: Alan Chaves/AFP via Getty Images

How Trump’s Anti-Environment Crusade Enriches Drug Traffickers

By Katie Surma
Members of the Afro-descendant community in mangrove roots in Colombia. Credit: Conservation International

Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says

By Katie Surma
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks during a session of the Group of Seven (G7) Summit on June 17 in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. Credit: Teresa Suarez/AFP via Getty Images

Scientists’ Letter Urges Brazil’s President Lula to Reject New Amazon and Offshore Drilling

By Bob Berwyn
Cows graze on deforested land in Madre de Dios, Peru. Credit: Angela Ponce/The Washington Post via Getty Images

As China Touts Green Financing and Climate Goals, Its Banks Are Pouring Billions Into Commodities From the World’s Rainforests

By Georgina Gustin
Silvana Nihua, a member of the Kiwaro community and former OWAP president, sits near a sacred waterfall in a Waorani community's territory, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon. Credit: Nico Kingman/Amazon Frontlines

Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens on Indigenous Lands?

By Katie Surma
Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari receives the Goldman Environmental Prize for her decades-long fight to protect the Marañón River in Peru. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Precedent-Setting Work Protecting an Imperiled River

By Katie Surma
Fernando Trujillo (right) and his team carry a pink river dolphin to shore to conduct a health assessment on the endangered animal. Credit: Teresa Tomassoni/Inside Climate News

One Man’s Quest to Protect Pink River Dolphins

By Teresa Tomassoni
Conta, a member of the Tagaeri and Baihuaeri Waorani Indigenous groups, appears before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights via pre recorded video on Aug. 23, 2022. Credit: Courtesy of the Inter American Court of Human Rights

Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry

By Katie Surma

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