Behind the frontier

CONTESTED FRONTIERS IN AMAZONIA Marianne Schmink and Charles H Wood Publisher: Columbia University Press Price: $35

Third of Amazon rainforest lost or degraded: Report

Climate change is a growing global concern that jeopardises the Amazon’s biodiversity

Death in the devil’s paradise

British colonial history is tainted by its involvement in rubber collection from the Peruvian Amazon, writes Survivor International

Simply put: Wildfires across the world

City lost in Amazon

Archaeology>> Geoglyphs • Brazil/Bolivia

Cameras on a tricycle

Google>> Photography • South America

ECUADOR

Off the logs

Digital Markets Act: EU’s landmark bill that takes aim at big tech

Law may also force companies like Google and Apple to allow alternatives to their app stores

As Amazon burns BlackRock emerges as world’s largest investor in deforestation

The world’s largest institutional investor with US $6.5 trillion in assets is a global leader in financing forest destruction, new report says

Water in forests: Finding the blue in the greens

It is time we rediscover forests as a ‘water commons’ to aid India’s fight against climate change

Earth lost a tenth of wilderness in just two decades

Major losses have occurred in the Amazon and Africa. Efforts to protect the critical areas are failing to keep pace with the rate of loss

Indigenous people slam Peru government for unrestrained deforestation of Amazon

Around 13 per cent of original forest area deforested by 2014, according to a new report

‘Lianas threaten Earth’s carbon sinks’

Field ecologist Alain Ngute explains how lianas have lower carbon sequestering capacity than trees & when they compete for sunlight in the …

One-day temperatures breach 2°C warming point for 1st time

This was another year passing by with empty promises of controlling climate change

Biodiversity hotspot in the Amazon awaiting official recognition for 20 years

Peru government silent on awarding protected status

Amazon, a click away

Maps>> Rainforest • Brazil

BRAZIL

BRAZIL

Spy eye

False hopes sunk?

The Amazon emits high levels of greenhouse gases

ChevronTexaco on trial

October 21, 2003. High-level corporate lawyers from ChevronTexaco sit in the same packed muggy courtroom as bare-breasted Amazonian men and women …

Amazon ‘one of the most dangerous places to be a green defender’: Report

One person died every other day while protecting the planet last year, says Global Witness  

Davi Kopenawa wins Alternate Nobel Prize for protecting the Amazon rainforest

Davi has frequently been threatened by the gold miners and politicians who target the resources inside the Yanomami territory

Major victory for indigenous groups in Ecuadorian Amazon

Chinese company pulls out of contract to drill for oil in remote rainforest after protests by indigenous groups