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The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

Brazil’s Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister

President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed Amazon activist Marina Silva

The Independent UK · Dec 29, 2022

Brazil's Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed Amazon activist Marina Silva as environment minister

The Independent UK · Dec 29, 2022

‘Amazonia, you beauty!’ How the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira renewed the fight for Brazil’s forests

Six months on, is something positive coming from the killings that shocked the world?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 25, 2022

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Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 – and three to be terrified

The electoral defeat of Jair Bolsonaro by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is good news for world’s largest rainforest, but the situation remains perilous

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2022

Colombia lost 86,985 hectares of forest through Sept. 30 this year -report

Colombia has lost 86,985 hectares (214,944 acres) of Amazon jungle in the first nine months of the year while fires burned through swathes of felled areas, a local advocacy group said on Monday.

Reuters · Dec 19, 2022

Sônia Guajajara hails Brazil’s Indigenous ministry after Bolsonaro ‘turmoil’

The activist for native peoples says she will work to overturn the ‘catastrophic legacy’ from Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency

The Guardian - US · Dec 18, 2022

Explainer-What the world's nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal

Tangled expanses of Amazon rainforest, high mountains of the Himalayas, and cloud-shrouded forests are just some of the unique landscapes contained within the world's most nature-rich nations. And protecting these ecosystems, experts say, could help save the planet.

Reuters · Dec 17, 2022

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Witness to paradise being lost: my year in the dying Amazon

In the past 12 months I have learned that the mass extermination of the Amazon is a climate catastrophe – and much more

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2022

The Amazon’s highway through hell – Richard Mosse’s best photograph

‘I took this on the Trans-Amazonian Highway, which runs through the heart of the rainforest. It is being burned to clear land, a process that kills everything. It felt like the end of the world’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2022

Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 8 – Memoria

Tilda Swinton is a florist attuned to surreal frequencies of the Amazon in Thai film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slowly beautiful and mysterious English-language debut

The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2022

Analysis-Protecting 30% of the planet to save nature is not as simple as it sounds

From the lush Amazon rainforest to the frigid Arctic Ocean, the world's landscapes — and all the wildlife they contain — are under threat, and the world needs to set aside a third of all land and sea territories to save them, U.N. experts say.

Reuters · Dec 14, 2022

Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 9 – Memoria

Tilda Swinton is a florist attuned to surreal frequencies of the Amazon in Thai film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slowly beautiful and mysterious English-language debut

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2022

Ecuador's state oil firm says weather power outage hits hundreds of wells

Ecuadoran state oil firm Petroecuador on Monday said weather-related damage to a power line affected more than 700 wells in its most productive blocks in the country's Amazon region, further biting into its crude output.

Reuters · Dec 13, 2022

Revealed: Brazil goldminers carve illegal ‘Road to Chaos’ out of Amazon reserve

Aerial photos from reconnaissance mission reveal effort to smuggle excavators into Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory

The Guardian - US · Dec 12, 2022

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The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2022

Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 – review

Beach meets jungle on this classy compilation of vintage cumbia

Reuters · Dec 9, 2022

Indigenous group denounces release of suspect in Amazon murder of British journalist, expert

An indigenous group from the area of the Amazon rainforest where British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were murdered in June on Thursday deplored the release of one of the suspects in the killing.

Reuters · Dec 7, 2022

Brazil risks losing control of the Amazon to organized crime, judge warns

Brazil runs the risk of losing control over its vast Amazon rainforest region to organized crime and traffickers who use the lawless region to smuggle drugs, a Supreme Court judge warned on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2022

‘Their vision needs to be shared’: the tiny shop championing the literature of the Amazon

Banca do Largo contains the world’s largest collection of titles by Amazonian writers – and its owner believes their Indigenous knowledge and voices should be more widely heard

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WEKU · Dec 7, 2022

Rare good news from the Amazon: Gigantic fish are thriving again

Conservationists say a sustainable fishing program has helped the recovery of the local pirarucu — which can be up to 10-feet long and weigh 450 pounds.

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2022

Crime scene: Inside the 9 December Guardian Weekly

Dangers still lurk in the Amazon. Plus: Saudi Arabia’s palace coup

Salon · Dec 6, 2022

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The Guardian - US · Dec 5, 2022

Lula faces stiff challenge to fulfil vow to reverse Amazon deforestation in Brazil

President’s predecessor Bolsonaro unleashed record destruction on rainforest and emboldened loggers, land grabbers and illegal miners

The Guardian - US · Dec 5, 2022

Six months after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered, the Amazon remains unsafe for activists

Activists are cautiously hopeful that the incoming president will bring relief to Bolsonaro’s forest-wrecking administration

The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2022

Amazon loses 10% of its vegetation in nearly four decades

The Amazon region has lost 10% of its vegetation in nearly four decades, according to a new report

Reuters · Nov 30, 2022

Lula proposes pact to curb Brazilian soy linked to savanna deforestation

Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's transition team has held meetings with the soy industry to discuss a new pact to stop deforestation in the Cerrado savanna, modeled on an agreement for the Amazon, a Lula adviser said on Wednesday.

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The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

Brazil’s Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister

Brazil's Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister

‘Amazonia, you beauty!’ How the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira renewed the fight for Brazil’s forests

Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 – and three to be terrified

Colombia lost 86,985 hectares of forest through Sept. 30 this year -report

Sônia Guajajara hails Brazil’s Indigenous ministry after Bolsonaro ‘turmoil’

Explainer-What the world's nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal

Witness to paradise being lost: my year in the dying Amazon

The Amazon’s highway through hell – Richard Mosse’s best photograph

Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 8 – Memoria

Analysis-Protecting 30% of the planet to save nature is not as simple as it sounds

Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 9 – Memoria

Ecuador's state oil firm says weather power outage hits hundreds of wells

Revealed: Brazil goldminers carve illegal ‘Road to Chaos’ out of Amazon reserve

Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972​-​1986 – review

Indigenous group denounces release of suspect in Amazon murder of British journalist, expert

Brazil risks losing control of the Amazon to organized crime, judge warns

‘Their vision needs to be shared’: the tiny shop championing the literature of the Amazon

Rare good news from the Amazon: Gigantic fish are thriving again

Crime scene: Inside the 9 December Guardian Weekly

Essential reads on issues in the Amazon

Lula faces stiff challenge to fulfil vow to reverse Amazon deforestation in Brazil

Six months after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered, the Amazon remains unsafe for activists

Amazon loses 10% of its vegetation in nearly four decades

Lula proposes pact to curb Brazilian soy linked to savanna deforestation

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