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Amazon rainforest

May 2026

  • Susana Muhamad gestures with her hand while speaking at a microphone

    Colombia’s climate crossroads: Trumpism casts shadow over presidential battle

    Colombia is a global leader in climate activism. Could US influence drag country to a future of mining and fracking?
  • Aerial view of a large open-pit iron ore mine with terraced red earth excavations beside dense rainforest

    Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says

    Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds
  • Piles of logs and fires in an area of former rainforest

    ‘Amazon of America’: film paints vision of a post-coup Brazil giving up rainforest

    Vitória Régia imagines rightwing Bolsonaro plot succeeded with US help – and highlights threats facing Indigenous peoples

April 2026

  • Exhausted looking miners sit below an excavated cliff strewn with sacks.

    Clean energy switch must not be excuse to plunder Indigenous lands, say leaders

    Global conference told benefits should not come at expense of well-protected environments

March 2026

  • A woman wearing jeans and a T-shirt holds a young coffee plant in a plantation in a forest

    Coffee crisis
    A robust future? Why Brazil’s ‘bitter’ coffee is thriving as the climate crisis hits global crops

  • A group of chimpanzees sit on the ground

    The age of extinction
    ‘We cannot replace USAID, but we can do big things’: conservation plots a future without American money

February 2026

  • Men walk in a line while linking arms

    View from the Amazon
    ‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway

    Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by one of US powerhouses of world trade

January 2026

  • Soy field in the Amazon

    UK supermarkets push for Amazon soy safeguards after traders abandon ban

    European retailers urge traders to adhere to commitments after Brazilian lawmakers wreck forest protection pact
  • A coral reef in the shallows of Halmahera, Indonesia.

    The government must act now on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse

    Letters: There is no justification to delay political action on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, say Dr Mike Barrett and Dr Steven R Smith, while Olivia Blake MP says the breakdown of nature is not a side issue that can be buried

    • Nearly 200 arrested in cross-border crackdown on gold mining in Amazon

    • Men charged with contract killing of Indigenous leader to go on trial in Peru

    • View from the Amazon
      US attack on Venezuela will decide direction of South America’s vast mineral wealth

December 2025

  • A woman surrounded by bees

    Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first

    Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’
  • Composite photo of an oil tanker burning on water, an overhead view of a path through a forest and a masked gang member with a gun jumping over foliage

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Cocaine, gold and meat’: how Colombia’s Amazon became big business for crime networks

    Armed groups have moved in to the space left by the Farc after the civil war, cutting down rainforest to control land and build thousands of kilometres of smuggling routes

    • The alternatives
      ‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers

    • Uncontacted people
      The loggers and ranchers are closing in but still Brazil’s Kawahiva people wait for protection

    • ‘We’re true guardians of the forest’: quilombola community near Belém demand land rights and recognition

November 2025

  • A logging truck deep in the jungle of Cameroon

    Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds

    Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown
  • Aerial view of Congo rainforest along Rembo Ngowe river, Akaka, Loango national park, Gabon.

    The age of extinction
    The rainforest the world forgot: the Congo basin is the second largest on Earth, so why is it being neglected?

    It is one of the world’s most vital carbon sinks, but this tropical rainforest is losing out when it comes to climate policy and funding
  • An Indigenous man holds a sign demanding respect for the Amazon next to a large cutout image of the activist Raoni Metuktire

    ‘The haste feels contagious … I fear it’: a Xipai journalist on attending Cop30

    An Indigenous journalist’s experience of entering the belly of Cop where time does not flourish, it is consumed
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