The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

Despite serving as crucial guardians of biodiversity, traditional communities continue to be systematically excluded from developing and managing protected areas. This often subtle, silent exclusion has fueled persistent, complex socio-environmental conflicts, harming both conservation and the welfare of Indigenous peoples, riverside populations, Afro-Brazilian quilombola communities, and smallholder farmers.

Missing in the Amazon is a new six-part audio investigation into the disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira - told for the first time by the people closest to them.

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Politicians reviled environmental minister Marina Silva in the senate this week, but new legislation is fuelling the fire

Fragments of hope mix with grim realities in How to Save the Amazon, published in the UK and Brazil this week.

When trees die from drought, they release carbon, accelerating global warming

From the ever-brilliant LifeStraw to other portable and potable hydration heroes

Friends and colleagues of Phillips, killed in the Amazon in 2022, completed his book, which coincides with launch of investigative Guardian podcast

THE ECO CHAMBER: With wildfires reaching new and disastrous heights, we need an end to global pledges – and more opportunities for people to make a living by protecting valuable ecosystems, writes Chris Wright