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The Amazon Rainforest: The Most Unreal Place on Earth?

Stark photos show quest for profit cutting swathes through the Amazon

Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the Brazilian government relaxed environmental controls

Amazon Deforestation Impact: Carbon Loss, Biodiversity Crisis – Slash-and-Burn to Reforestation

Deforestation environmental impact ravages the Amazon rainforest through slash-and-burn, causing carbon sink loss, biodiversity collapse, and habitat destruction.

Solar installation and deforestation in the Amazon: Photo of the week

In August 2025, photojournalist Victor Moriyama captured this scene on the outskirts of Rio Branco, the capital of Acre, a state in the far northwest of the Brazilian Amazon. As a...

‘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 peoplesThe year is 2025 and far-right coup plotters have annihila...

An Amazon rainforest river from space | Space photo of the day for April 30, 2026

The Ucayali River snakes across the rainforest in this image captured by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir from the International Space Station.

A red flower found nowhere else loses ground as mining expands in Brazil’s Amazon

In Brazil’s eastern Amazon, a bright red flower found nowhere else on Earth is threatened with extinction from expanding iron ore mining, scientists warn. The flowering plant, Ipom...

How China's evolving consumer habits may protect the Amazon rainforest

Amazon rainforest loses vast acreage yearly, with 90% cleared land converted to cattle pasture

The Amazon’s path from crisis to durability

In the Amazon, a forest can remain on the map while losing much of what makes it function. The Amazon rainforest is often discussed through a few familiar measures: deforestation,...

Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s

At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash widespread rainforest dieback with as little as 1.5°C of global warming

Brazil’s Atlantic forest records lowest deforestation in 40 years

Environmentalists hail decline but warn weakened laws could reverse gainsBrazil’s Atlantic forest, the country’s most threatened biome, last year recorded its lowest level of defor...

Brazilian state greenlights deforestation for contested open-pit gold mine

The state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon has authorized Canadian mining company Belo Sun to begin clearing nearly 600 hectares, or almost 1,500 acres, of rainforest for an open-pi...

Deforestation and warming could push Amazon to tipping point by 2040s: Study

Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could come much sooner than previously thought. That’s the w...

Brazilian government commits $617.5M to Amazon ecological investment

The resources are expected to go toward businesses that support sustainable tourism, improve infrastructure in the Amazon and expand the "bioeconomy" — the so-called economic activ...

Will my president save the Amazon? (commentary)

In the coming months, voters in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia will elect new presidents. Together, these three countries contain roughly 82% of the Amazon rainforest, making their ele...

Brazil gold mining rush brings deforestation and mercury risks to the Amazon

SAO PAULO (AP) — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving...

AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas

In July 2025, the Indigenous Shuar people celebrated the end of a decade-long struggle when they received official titles for three communities — the Shuar Tunants, Kampan and Tsun...

Brazil: Satellites expose rampant gold mining expansion on Indigenous Kayapó land

The Kayapó Indigenous Territory has emerged as a major hotspot for illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon’s Xingu River Basin, a major Amazon tributary. That’s according to a...

Brazil to invest $75 million in highway through Amazon and unveils environmental protection plan

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government has announced a $75 million investment in the BR-319 highway, a move environmentalists fear could speed up Amazon deforestation. President Luiz...

‘If they pollute our rivers, what will become of us?’: the town divided between hope and fear in Brazil’s Amazon oil rus...

As a state-controlled company explores for oil in the fragile Equatorial Margin the government struggles to balance its ecological promises with fossil fuel expansion. In Oiapoque,...

The Amazon is under assault from organized crime, report warns

A new report published by the International Crisis Group (ICG) identified organized crime as a major obstacle to protecting the Amazon.  Criminal organizations have expanded territ...

How Amazon Deforestation Rainfall Loss Is Worsening as Climate Change Dries the Rainforest

New research shows Amazon deforestation rainfall loss is accelerating as climate change dries the rainforest, increasing drought risks and worsening Amazon rainfall decline.

Novel research finds unexpected climate resilience in up to 36% of Amazon forest

Reports on the health and vitality of the Amazon — often dubbed as Earth’s lungs — have been grim for years. Record drought has stressed large swaths of the world’s largest rainfor...

Brazil taps legal loophole to issue bids for Amazon ‘tipping point’ road

A strategic shift in law clears the way for a highway that scientists warn will push the Amazon to a tipping point.