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A Jambato harlequin toad is seen at the Jambatu Center for Amphibian Research and Conservation in San Rafael, Ecuado. Credit: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images

In Ecuador’s Battle of Toad vs. Road, Toad Wins

By Katie Surma
Donald Moncayo, president of the Union of Peoples Affected by Chevron-Texaco, walks toward a gas flare in the Ecuadorian Amazon region. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Latest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million

By Katie Surma
Trucks carry wood from a deforested area of the Amazon rainforest on Nov. 12 near Belem, Brazil. Credit: Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images

Days After COP30, Brazil Weakened Amazon Safeguards

By Bob Berwyn
The cranes of a new megaport tower behind the town of Chancay, Peru. Credit: Cris Bouroncle/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Georgina Gustin
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
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
Ecuadoreans gather at a polling center in Manglaralto on Sunday to vote on a referendum proposed by President Daniel Noboa to overhaul Ecuador’s constitution. Credit: Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images

Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution

By Katie Surma
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
An emerald glass frog sits on a leaf in Ecuador’s Mindo cloud forest. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Ecuadorians to Vote on Constitutional Rewrite, Possibly Gutting Rights of Nature

By Katie Surma
José Gualinga, a leader of the Kichwa People of Sarayaku, speaks at an Indigenous council event in New York City on Sept. 22. Credit: Courtesy of GARN

How a Declaration of Ancestral Wisdom Is Changing Law, Science and Our Understanding of the World

By Katie Surma
People attend the funeral of Efraín Fueres. Fueres, 46, was gunned down last month in Cotacachi, Ecuador, where he was marching in protest of high costs of living and government crackdowns on Indigenous and environmental activists. Credit: La Raíz

The Death Toll Is Rising from Ecuador’s Crackdown on Protesters

By Katie Surma
People gather for a protest against the disappearance of Mapuche leader and environmental defender Julia Chuñil in front of La Moneda Palace on April 8 in Santiago, Chile. Credit: Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images

An Average Week in 2024: Three Environmental Defenders Murdered or Disappeared

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
Despite Presidente Kennedy receiving record amounts of oil revenues per capita, the town still suffers form poor infrastructure. Credit: José Cícero/Agência Pública

‘Where’s the Money Going?’: Why Brazilian Towns Awash With Royalties From Oil Are Still Among the Poorest

By Rafael Oliveira, Agência Pública and the Guardian
An aerial view of an illegal mining operation on Kayapo Indigenous territory in Pará, Brazil. Credit: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images

UN Human Rights Experts and Scientists Urge Brazil’s President to Veto a Law That Would Cut Environmental Reviews

By Bob Berwyn

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