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Interpol-backed police make nearly 200 arrests in Amazon region gold mining sweep

Police from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon

The Independent UK

Deep in the Amazon, I discovered this monkey’s ingenious survival tactic

Look down at the rainforest floor. Rotting flowers shift under the assault of tiny petal-eating beetles. Vividly coloured fungi pop up everywhere like the strange sculptures of a madly productive ceramicist.

The Conversation

Photographer Amelia Troubridge Captures Indigenous Women's Fight to Protect the Amazon in New Exhibition

LAND CAMP opens in London this week

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Five face trial in Peru in rare prosecution over the killing of an Amazon defender

Five men are set to stand trial in Peru over the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Amazon defender

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Never-Before-Seen Footage Of Uncontacted Amazonian Tribe Stuns The World, But Many Are Suspicious

“By the end of the week they will have Netflix, an ATM and a McDonalds.”

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18 of Earth's biggest river deltas — including the Nile and Amazon — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests. This exacerbates the risk of catastrophic coastal flooding and land loss.

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Why Some Jungles Are Considered ‘Alive’ by Indigenous Tribes

For an outsider, a jungle may be just a piece of land covered with trees but for many indigenous tribes it is a living presence. Means it listens, reacts, protects and even sometimes warns. A study of the ecosystem may be a new phenomenon for modern science but tribal communities…

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Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon

Scientists recently discovered a new species of green anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. A new Nat Geo series shows the moment they encountered this snake in the wild.

LiveScience

Why an Amazon river cruise should be on your bucket list

Aboard a small ship in Peru, Angelina Villa-Clarke discovers a kaleidoscope of wildlife (and the perfect pisco sour)

Evening Standard

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’

The Guardian - UK

6 best expedition cruises to see rare wildlife and remote landscapes in 2026

From a 12-day trip to the icy Arctic to a river cruise of the Amazon, Marc Shoffman has your guide to the most exciting expeditions of 2026

The Independent UK

Ecological myopia: the blind spot holding back climate action

Global debate about how to navigate the climate crisis often centres on high-level pledges and whether national targets are being met. Yet focusing on these technical outcomes obscures a deeper problem that keeps climate action falling short.

The Conversation

How to Choose a Responsible Amazon River Trip

Planning an Amazon River adventure should feel exciting, not stressful. And choosing to travel responsibly is one of the best ways to make the experience meaningful.

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‘Hot droughts’ could push the Amazon into a hypertropical climate by 2100 - and trees won’t survive

A hypertropical climate has not occurred on Earth in at least 10 million years.

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Amazon rainforest is transitioning to a 'hypertropical' climate — and trees won't survive that for long

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could increase to 150 days per year by 2100.

The Independent UK

Threats, armed men and bodyguards are facts of life for activists in Colombia's Amazon

Jani Silva is a renowned environmental activist in Colombia’s Amazon, but she has been unable to live in her house for nearly a decade

The Guardian - UK

Rockets, gold and the Foreign Legion: can Europe defend its frontier in the Amazon?

It borders Brazil, but French Guiana is now a remote outpost of the EU. It is home to Europe’s only spaceport, some of the most biodiverse forest on the planet and a military mission that is testing the limits of western power. By Alexander Hurst

The Guardian - UK

‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30

Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet

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'Don’t Put Hummingbird Feeders Away for Winter' Urges a Bird Expert – They’re a Vital Resource, but Only if Properly Maintained

Migrating hummingbirds rely on feeders in certain states during the coldest months

The Conversation

How stories of personal experience cut through climate fatigue in ways that global negotiations can’t

When Cop30 convened in Belém, deep inside the Amazon, the world’s attention turned once again to negotiations, emissions pledges and political manoeuvring. The global stage was set against one of Earth’s most biodiverse landscapes and some of its most vulnerable communities, yet the conversation still leaned heavily toward geopolitics rather…

The Conversation

Why hosting the UN climate summit in the Amazon was so important, despite the disappointing outcome

Extreme heat, fires and flooding – all hallmark consequences of climate change – directly influenced this year’s UN climate change conference Cop30 in Belém, Brazil.

The Independent UK

Here's what's next in the fight to curb climate change, now that talks in Brazil have ended

Experts have mixed reactions to the recent U.N. climate talks in the Amazon

The Conversation

Cop30: five reasons the UN climate conference failed to deliver on its ‘people’s summit’ promise

As the sun set on the Amazon, the promise of a “people’s Cop” faded with it. The latest UN climate summit – known as Cop30, hosted in the Brazilian city of Belém – came with the usual geopolitics and the added excitement of a flood and a fire.

The Independent UK

Many hoped UN climate talks in Brazil would be historic. They may be remembered as a flop

For years, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, along with many climate experts, had high hopes for the U.N. climate talks that just finished in Brazil

The Conversation

This year’s climate talks saw real progress – just not on fossil fuels

It wasn’t a comfortable process for the tens of thousands of delegates trying to hash out progress on climate change on the edge of the Amazon in Belém, Brazil. I experienced the challenges of the United Nations COP30 climate talks firsthand.

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