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Amazon Rainforest

Firefighters arrive to extinguish a wildfire on Sept. 24 in Concepcion, Bolivia. Credit: Rodrigo Urzagasti/AFP via Getty Images

Bolivia Has National Rights of Nature Laws. Why Haven’t They Been Enforced?

By Katie Surma
Cattle graze in an area near recent deforestation in the state of Acre, Brazil on July 14, 2022. Credit: Rafael Vilela/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Ranchers Are Using Toxic Herbicides to Clear Forests in Brazil

By Georgina Gustin

Behind the Scenes: Using Direct Democracy to Keep Oil in the Ground Is More Complex Than it Seems

By Kiley Price
Waorani Indigenous people protest in front of Ecuador's Energy Ministry on Aug. 20 to demand that the government respect the results of a referendum requiring an end to oil drilling in the Yasuni National Park. Credit: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images

This Country Voted to Keep Oil in the Ground. Will It Happen?

By Katie Surma
Hugo Loss is an analyst with Brazil’s elite environmental enforcement agency IBAMA. Credit: Richard Ladkani/Amazônia Latitude

Lessons for Democracy From the Brazilian Amazon 

By Marcos Colón, Amazônia Latitude and Katie Surma, Inside Climate News
In late April, the Chaco provincial legislature approved a law that allows the clearing of hundreds of thousands of acres of native forest. Credit: Periodistas por el Planeta/Abogados Ambientalistas

Fighting for the Native Forest of the Gran Chaco in Argentina

By Alexa Robles-Gil
A jaguar rescued from animal trafficking is seen at the Santa Cruz Foundation in Cundinamarca, Colombia. Credit: Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Jaguars, Macaws and Tropical Dry Forest Have a Right To Exist, a Colombian Court Is Told

By Katie Surma
Young people from Amazonian communities march during the Pan-Amazon Social Forum in Rurrenabaque, Bolivia on June 12. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

To Save the Amazon, What if We Listened to Those Living Within It?

By Katie Surma
Aymara activists opposed to mining operations in Peru's southeastern Puno region organized on May 31, 2011 for a wave of protests against the Canada-based Bear Creek Mining Corporation plans to open a silver mine in the area. Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images

The International System That Pits Foreign Investors Against Indigenous Communities

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz
A Colombian military police helicopter takes off from the base, which they share with a civilian airport, in Florencia, Caqueta.

Armed Groups Use Deforestation as a Bargaining Chip in Colombia

Story and photos by Alex Price
Natalia Greene, an Ecuadorian environmentalist and judge with the International Rights of Nature Tribunal, walks through the Chocó Andino cloud forest with her family in Mindo, Ecuador. Credit: Katie Surma

How the Drug War and Energy Transition Are Changing Ecuadorians’ Fight For The Rights of Nature

By Katie Surma
A man uses a spear to deter pink dolphins as they attempt to snatch fish from the fishermen's nets, often resulting in the damaging the nylon tools. Credit: Dado Galdieri/Hilaea Media

A River in Flux

By Daniel Grossman
The lawsuit to obtain recognition of the Marañón River’s legal rights was filed by the Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana, a federation of Kukama Indigenous women. Credit: Miguel Araoz/Quisca

Landmark Peruvian Court Ruling Says the Marañón River Has Legal Rights To Exist, Flow and Be Free From Pollution

By Katie Surma
A ferry boat is seen stranded at the Marina do Davi, a docking area of the Negro River in the city of Manaus, Amazonas State, northern Brazil, on October 16, 2023. The Negro River is facing the worst dry season of the last decades in the Amazon rainforest. Credit: Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images

A Historic and Devastating Drought in the Amazon Was Caused by Climate Change, Researchers Say

By Georgina Gustin
Conta, a member of the Tagaeri and Baihuaeri Waorani Indigenous groups, appears (via pre recorded video) before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 23, 2022 for a hearing in the first ever court case involving the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples. Conta lived the first six or seven years of her life in voluntary isolation with her Tageri family. Credit: Courtesy of the Inter American Court of Human Rights

Spanning Two Worlds, Judith Kimerling Explores Ecuador’s Rainforest and the Rule of Law That Might Save Those Who Live There

By Katie Surma
Judith Kimerling kneeling on pipelines above a drilling waste pit in the Ecuadorian Amazon in July 1990. Credit: Courtesy of Judith Kimerling

Judith Kimerling’s 1991 ‘Amazon Crude’ Exposed the Devastation of Oil Exploration in Ecuador. If Only She Could Make it Stop

By Katie Surma
A conservationist with the NGO Panthera fights a fire in Porto Jofre, the Pantanal of Mato Grosso state, Brazil, on September 4, 2021. The Amazon, home to more than three million species, has long absorbed large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions, but some research has shown it recently emitting more CO2 than it absorbs due to wildfires, deforestation and declining forest health. Credit: Carl De Souza/AFP via Getty Images

New Research Makes it Harder to Kick The Climate Can Down the Road from COP28

By Bob Berwyn

A Growing Movement Looks to End Oil Drilling in the Amazon

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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