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Amazon Rainforest

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
Eduardo Mendúa (center), an Indigenous Ecuadorian activist fighting oil extraction in the Amazon rainforest, was shot to death in his garden on Sunday. Photo Courtsey of Kayla Jenkins

Eduardo Mendúa, Ecuadorian Who Fought Oil Extraction on Indigenous Land, Is Shot to Death

By Katie Surma
José Pepe Manuyama, who is featured in the documentary film "Stepping Softly on the Earth," stands before a graveyard in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo courtesy of Marcos Colón.

Director Marcos Colón Takes an Intimate Look at Three Indigenous Leaders’ Fight to Preserve Their Ancestral Connection to Nature in the Amazon

By Katie Surma
Indigenous activist Bitate Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, poses at the premiere of National Geographic Documentary Film 'The Territory', in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sept. 5, 2022. Credit: Miguel Schincariol/AFP via Getty Images

Listening to the Endangered Sounds of the Amazon Rainforest

By Kiley Bense
Satere-Mawe indigenous leader Valdiney Satere collects caferana, a native plant of the Amazon rainforest, used as medicinal herb, in the Taruma neighbourhood, a rural area west of Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil, in May 2020. Credit: Ricardo Oliveira/AFP via Getty Images.

In the Amazon, Indigenous and Locally Controlled Land Stores Carbon, but the Rest of the Rainforest Emits Greenhouse Gases

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma
Aerial view of an illegal logging operation in Humaitá, southern Amazonas State, Brazil, on Sept. 17, 2022. Credit: Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images

Lawyers Press International Court to Investigate a ‘Network’ Committing Crimes Against Humanity in Brazil’s Amazon

By Katie Surma
Blanca Chancosa, juíza do Tribunal Internacional dos Direitos da Natureza e líder indígena equatoriana, examina parte da maior mina de minério de ferro do mundo, de propriedade da gigante brasileira de mineração Vale, em 23 de julho de 2022. Crédito: Katie Surma

Mil Milhas na Amazônia, para Mudar a Maneira como o Mundo Funciona

By Katie Surma
Blanca Chancosa, a judge with the International Rights of Nature tribunal and an Ecuadorian Indigenous leader, looks into part of the world's largest iron ore mine owned by the Brazilian mining giant Vale on July 23, 2022. Credit: Katie Surma

A Thousand Miles in the Amazon, to Change the Way the World Works

By Katie Surma

Indigenous Land Rights Are Critical to Realizing Goals of the Paris Climate Accord, a New Study Finds

By Katie Surma

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