Environmental campaigners raise concerns over sustainability of some eco-friendly items.
Disposable nappies, cotton buds , pet food and novelty Donald Trump toilet paper were among the products on…
Paper suggests climate crisis reducing insects in lowlands and central jungle, as fruit-eaters not affected
Bird species are in decline even in the remote parts of the Amazon, far from human…
Researchers have drawn up a blueprint of areas that need additional conservation to stem biodiversity and climate crises.
World leaders are preparing to join a key summit on biodiversity being…
Climate crisis and logging is leading to shift from canopy rainforest to open grassland.
Much of the Amazon could be on the verge of losing its distinct nature and switching from a closed canopy…
Infernos in South America’s Pantanal region have burnt twice the area of California’s fires this year. Researchers fear the rare ecosystem will never recover.
When Luciana Leite arrived in the…
On an early December morning last year in the state of Maranhão, Brazil, half a dozen members of the Indigenous Guajajara people packed their bags with food, maps and drone equipment to get ready for…
The vast rainforest is experiencing a repeat of last year’s devastating fires and critics say Bolsonaro bears ultimate responsibility.
Jair Bolsonaro smiles down from a propaganda billboard at the…
Founding partner says ‘investing in the resilience of nature is investing in the resilience of the economy’.
A push to better recognise the economic value of “natural capital” – water systems,…
HUMAITA, Brazil (Reuters) - Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have surged so far in August, government data on Friday showed, outstripping the same period of 2019 and renewing concerns about the…
Missing from the global discourse on climate change and biodiversity
When Paula Whyte, a technical advisor for Tanzania-based non-governmental organization Mpingo Conservation and Development…
A growing movement for sustainable agriculture in Brazil has taken on new urgency with the coronavirus pandemic.
The cumaru trees could have been planted elsewhere in this Amazon reserve, where they…
A soon-to-be-released feature film exemplifies how independent media initiatives can be powerful tools for social and environmental justice organizing.
Institutional investors managing about $3.7 trillion in assets want Brazil to abandon a proposal they say will add to deforestation and violate the rights of indigenous groups in the Amazon.
Civil society groups and public prosecutors in Brazil are taking President Jair Bolsonaro's government to court for failing to protect the Amazon rainforest, adding pressure to an administration…
Despite the global economic slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon appears to be continuing largely unabated with forest clearing over the past 12 months…
Tim Bray decries 'vein of toxicity running through company culture' after resigning from US online retail giant
An Amazon executive claims to have quit his job "in dismay" at the recent dismissal of…
We found the first fire without looking, crackling and roaring on farmland beside the busy Amazon highway, the flames consuming a road sign with its name – BR-163 – lying in the grass. Trucks…
New study finds ocean ecosystems likely to collapse in 2020s and land species in 2040s unless global warming stemmed.
Wildlife species will die out and natural ecosystems collapse in the near future…
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