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Amazon rainforest

August 2026

  • Fires burn along the Trans-Amazonian highway near the Aripuana national forest in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, in 2021.

    View from the Amazon
    El Niño may peak at the worst time for the Amazon – and it should worry us all

  • a fisher holding two small grey and red fish in front of his eyes

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Invisible poison: living with mercury pollution in the Colombian Amazon – in pictures

    Gallery19

July 2026

  • Aerial view of the village of Apiwtxa, next to a winding stretch of river and surrounded by rainforest

    Masked men invading and taking Amazon communities ‘hostage’ in organised crime surge, say local leaders

    Delegation sent to Brasília after gunmen from organised crime group enter homes in western Amazon
  • Four members of Brazilian forces carrying guns inspect the site of a generator

    ‘It’s total devastation’: inside the Amazonian war against illegal gold mining

    The Guardian goes on the ground with Brazilian forces fighting to eradicate mining that has destroyed protected areas of Indigenous land

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      Blockades, marches and human shields: Bolivia’s farmers resist as land opened up to industry

    • Into the spider’s lair: how an Australian film-maker made an impossible documentary with AI

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      Ruined utopias: the afterlife of the Amazon’s forgotten towns – in pictures

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June 2026

  • Several brightly colored macaws perch on bare branches of a tall tree above dense Amazon rainforest canopy

    The long read
    Can ecosystems ‘malfunction’?

    We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like aeroplanes or human hearts
  • Two soldiers are seen in silhouetted next to a dusty road as a person rides by on a motorbike.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Why farmers see Colombia’s knife-edge election as a battle for the Amazon’s future

    Many small-scale landowners now include conservation measures alongside everyday farming. But progress is precarious, and the threat of guerrilla violence and poverty remain whichever candidate wins
  • An Indigenous man in profile wears a traditional feathered headdress with blue and yellow feathers in front of blurred portraits of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

    Alleged mastermind in murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira to stand trial

    Brazilian judge rules there is enough evidence to try Ruben Dario da Silva Villar over killings of journalist and activist

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
  • Equipment and a small fire in a jungle setting

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

    Cash, gold, mercury and firearms seized in operations involving Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname
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