Amazon
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AMERICAS
Brazil’s Amazon Fire Fight: From Confrontation to Cooperation
Brazil has achieved what once seemed impossible: reducing Amazon forest fires to their lowest level in more than twenty years.…
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LIFE
Peru’s Forgotten Genocide: How Rubber Still Haunts the Amazon
Peru's Amazon carries scars that remain largely invisible to the nation's collective memory. The new documentary Shiringa, directed by Wilton…
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Technology’s Hand in Reclaiming Amazon Voices: Indigenous Media Turns Silence Into Power
In the Amazon, microphones now capture chainsaws where birds once sang. Indigenous storytellers are recording that shift, broadcasting it worldwide,…
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LIFE
Ecuador’s Cloud Kingdom, Where Ancient Conifers Guard Rivers Against Greed
Mist drapes the ridgelines of southern Ecuador, then slides into ravines where orchids bead with rain. Between two Andean spines,…
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AMERICAS
Amazon River Island Dispute Spotlights Forgotten Lives at Borders
On Santa Rosa, a Peruvian islet at the Amazon's triple border, survival means catching rainwater in barrels, living above floods…
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LIFE
A Reporter’s Fatal Quest Reshapes How We Imagine the Amazon Today
Dom Phillips set out to write a book about saving the Amazon without heroes or villains. After his murder with…
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LIFE
In Ecuador’s Rainforest, Women Gather to Defend the Amazon With Law—and Sisterhood
Forty Indigenous leaders, lawyers, and organizers journeyed deep into the Ecuadorian Amazon last week, not for protest or spectacle, but…
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ECONOMY
Brazil Oil Auction Sparks Fresh Climate Clash Near Amazon Mouth
Nine energy giants have just scooped up 34 offshore blocks in Brazil, reopening an old argument in a new decade:…
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LIFE
Peruvian Jungle Kids Paddle Forward to Protect Amazon’s Future
Every two weeks, dozens of children from Belén—a floating quarter of Iquitos—launch narrow canoes into the murky Itaya River. Their…
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AMERICAS
Ecuadorian Gangs Join Colombian Rebels to Expand Illicit Control
Eleven Ecuadorian soldiers killed in an Amazon ambush marked a brutal turning point. Once a mere transit zone, Ecuador now…
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