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Through the lens: the beauty of the Congo Basin and its fragile future

The Congo Basin rainforest is the world’s largest carbon sink, absorbing more carbon dioxide than the Amazon. Often described as Africa’s “green lung”, it helps regulate the global climate, with peatlands that lock away huge amounts of carbon. But the region is under pressure from deforestation, industrial logging and plans…

Radio France Internationale

The biggest trees in the Peruvian Amazon store the most carbon — and they also face the greatest threat from humans

The Amazon's biggest trees store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, new study finds. But in the Peruvian Amazon, large trees are currently prioritized for harvest.

LiveScience

This Week in History: The Soviet ‘seductive bear’, Amazon’s Chernobyl, and the fall of a golfing icon

Explore how major events between 16 and 22 February were captured on The Independent’s front pages

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Where Wildlife Is Deadliest: Which Country Tops The List?

The world is breathtakingly beautiful, but in some places, that beauty comes with sharp teeth, potent venom, crushing strength, and silent danger. From dense rainforests to dry deserts and vast oceans, wildlife can be as deadly as it is fascinating. This question often sparks curiosity and fear at the same…

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Scientists warn of rising risk of Earth becoming irreversible ‘hothouse’

‘We could be entering a period of unprecedented climate change,’ scientists warn

The Independent UK

‘Hothouse’ Earth: Scientists sound alarm as multiple climate systems near critical tipping points

Sharp changes could result in a cascade of subsystem interactions that would steer the planet toward extreme warming and sea level rise.

Euronews

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say

Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

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'Nobody gives us any incentive': A family's solitary fight to save endangered plants in the Amazon

Pucha and his family have spent years building a 'living laboratory' and a vital seed bank in the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle.

Euronews

Call for write-ups: When global environmental governance displaces local wisdom in Halmahera and Amazon

Across resource-rich regions, weak governance and limited transparency determine who profits from extraction and who bears the environmental and social costs.

The Conversation

Seed guardians of the Amazon: A family's solitary fight to save endangered plants

Ramón Pucha ventures into the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle to collect seeds from endangered plant species

The Independent UK

Weakening the soy moratorium in Brazil: a political choice that ignores the science

In the first days of 2026, the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE), which represents the largest soybean traders in Brazil, announced its withdrawal from the Amazon soy moratorium.

The Conversation

Indigenous protesters block Cargill facility in Brazil over President Lula's decree

Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting at a Cargill facility in Santarem, Brazil, against a decree signed in August by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

The Independent UK

Getting an Orchid to Rebloom is Easier Than You Think – 5 Expert-Approved Ways to Trigger Spectacular Repeat Blooms

With this simple advice you can get any store-bought orchid to rebloom

Homes & Gardens

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

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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 Conversation

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.

Marie Claire

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

LAND CAMP opens in London this week

The Independent UK

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.”

LiveScience

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.

Times Life

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…

LiveScience

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.

Evening Standard

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)

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent 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

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