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Amazon rainforest

The Belo Monte dam.
Environment
Lula vows to end illegal mining in the Amazon. But legal mining is more complicated.
cows
Environment
Lula promises sustainable development for the Amazon
Children play in a flooded area of Leticia, Colombia, Feb. 14, 2017, located by the Amazon River, on the border with Brazil and Peru.
Environment
Brazil’s neighbors wary of environmental impact of a Bolsonaro victory
banner with people in front of it
Justice
Brazilians mourn deaths of journalist and anthropologist whose remains were recovered in the Amazon 
Ecologist Tom Lovejoy is being remembered for his decades of research and bringing people together to protect the Amazon rainforest and other ecosystems on the planet.
Environment
Remembering Tom Lovejoy, champion of biodiversity and the Amazon
Smoke rises from a processing mill at a palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia
Climate Change
The world’s tropical forests can help us limit climate change — if we let them
Cattle graze on land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil.
Climate Change
World leaders pledged to end forest loss. What will it take?
Gold sits in a pan moments after being torched to eliminate any mercury left, at an illegal mine the Amazon jungle, in the Itaituba area of Para state, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020.
Violence
‘Mining kills’: A gold rush in Brazil threatens the Yanomami Indigenous people
Image of an illegally deforested area on Pirititi Indigenous lands.
Climate Change
The Amazon rainforest is likely adding to global warming, says a new study
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in a ranch amongst smoke in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Aug. 28, 2020.  
Environment
Brazil’s wetlands ravaged by out-of-control wildfires
El Cono, inactive volcano in Peru
Environment
Court blocks oil drilling in Peruvian Amazon
Rainforest biotic pump
Environment
Rainforests are ‘worth more alive than dead,’ according to science — and economics
Trees in the Amazon on fire.
Are the Amazon fires a crime against humanity?
Red and orange blazing fires in Amazon forest
Environment
Amazon fires push the forest closer to a dangerous tipping point
A fire burns at night in the jungle.
Environment
Amazon fires: 8 ways you can help stop the rainforest burning
Firefighters extinguish a fire in Amazon jungle in Porto Velho, Brazil, on August 25, 2019.
Brazilian firefighters scramble for resources as Bolsonaro deflects help
Amazon rainforest
Global Politics
Brazil’s Bolsonaro wants to mine on Indigenous lands — illegally
A muddy river runs through a green landscape. On one side are trees and a dense forest; the other is bare.
Environment
Brazil’s new president targets Amazon rainforest, Indigenous peoples
An aerial view of a tract of dry land cleared by loggers and farmers surrounded by green tree tops.
Climate Change
Strict Amazon protections made Brazilian farmers more productive, new research shows
A muddy river runs through a green landscape. On one side are trees and a dense forest; the other is bare.
The Amazon's carbon tipping point
‘Our wealth is the forest’: Indigenous tribes are the last best hope for the Amazon
A dry brown patch of land is dotted with trees
The Amazon's carbon tipping point
A ‘Third Way’ to save the Amazon: make the standing forest itself more valuable
Fields growing soybeans for the global market have replaced dense rainforest along the Brazilian Amazon’s 'arc of deforestation.'
The Amazon's carbon tipping point
For illegal loggers in the Brazilian Amazon, ‘there is no fear of being punished’
Two trees are covered in instruments strapped to their bases
The Amazon's carbon tipping point
The Amazon used to be a hedge against climate change. Those days may be over.
A Ka'apor Indian warrior stands holding a rifle during a jungle expedition to search for and expel loggers from the Alto Turiacu Indian territory
Environment
An Amazon tribe fights back against illegal logging
Amazon deforestation
Environment
Brazil’s winning on the soccer field — and in battling climate change
Environment
Amazon Stories: Rainmaking
Amazon Deforestation on the Rise
The Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes
Amazon Forest as a Source of Carbon Dioxide
Arts, Culture & Media
Google Begins ‘Street View’ Project of the Amazon
Can REDD Work for the Amazon?
Exploring Children’s Nature Books, With Lynne Cherry
One River
One River
The Economics of Deforestation in Brazil
Amazon Forest as a Source of Carbon Dioxide
Drought in the Amazon
Urban Jungle Monkey
Protecting a Forest and Preserving a Culture
The Cattle Climate Connection
Can This Tribe Be Saved?
The Cofans of the Amazon
Environment
Saving Amazonian trees with cold, hard cash
Arts, Culture & Media
Amazon geoglyphs
Environment
Global Hit – Imbauba Group
Environment
Brazil drills for oil in the rainforest
Business, Economics and Jobs
Amazon: the value of preservation
Environment
Geo answer: Acre