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Amazon rainforest

January 2026

  • Soy field in the Amazon

    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
  • A coral reef in the shallows of Halmahera, Indonesia.

    The government must act now on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse

    Letters: There is no justification to delay political action on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, say Dr Mike Barrett and Dr Steven R Smith, while Olivia Blake MP says the breakdown of nature is not a side issue that can be buried

    • Nearly 200 arrested in cross-border crackdown on gold mining in Amazon

    • Men charged with contract killing of Indigenous leader to go on trial in Peru

    • View from the Amazon
      US attack on Venezuela will decide direction of South America’s vast mineral wealth

December 2025

  • A woman surrounded by bees

    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’
  • Composite photo of an oil tanker burning on water, an overhead view of a path through a forest and a masked gang member with a gun jumping over foliage

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Cocaine, gold and meat’: how Colombia’s Amazon became big business for crime networks

    Armed groups have moved in to the space left by the Farc after the civil war, cutting down rainforest to control land and build thousands of kilometres of smuggling routes

    • The alternatives
      ‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers

    • Uncontacted people
      The loggers and ranchers are closing in but still Brazil’s Kawahiva people wait for protection

    • ‘We’re true guardians of the forest’: quilombola community near Belém demand land rights and recognition

November 2025

  • A logging truck deep in the jungle of Cameroon

    Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds

  • Aerial view of Congo rainforest along Rembo Ngowe river, Akaka, Loango national park, Gabon.

    The age of extinction
    The rainforest the world forgot: the Congo basin is the second largest on Earth, so why is it being neglected?

  • An Indigenous man holds a sign demanding respect for the Amazon next to a large cutout image of the activist Raoni Metuktire

    ‘The haste feels contagious … I fear it’: a Xipai journalist on attending Cop30

  • Large crowd of protesters with banners and flags, many expressing solidarity with Palestine

    Thousands hit streets of Belém to call for action during crucial Cop30 summit

  • Indigenous protesters block entrance to Cop30 summit venue – video

    Video1:12

  • Today in Focus
    Cop ahoy! Sailing up the Amazon to the climate summit – podcast

    Podcast28:09

  • The Sunday read
    Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?

  • Lula’s balancing act: Cop30 Amazon summit juggles climate and social priorities

  • Science Weekly
    Revisited: How to save the Amazon episode three: ask the people that know – podcast

    Podcast25:00

  • The age of extinction
    Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study

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