Engolindo Fumaça é um projeto especial do InfoAmazonia que investiga os efeitos da poluição do ar causada pelas queimadas sobre a saúde da população amazônica. Em 2020, a trágica combinação entre a ...
The Comandos de la Frontera, a Colombian armed group that also operates in northern Ecuador, and the Ecuadorian gang Los Choneros have imposed a regime of terror in ...
Scientists are examining why banks of sargassum in the Atlantic have proliferated explosively over the past decade, fouling the Caribbean and extending to the coast of Africa. Growing discharges of ...
Forestry dashboard presented at COP26 shows that 9 million trees were cut down since the beginning of the summit. The forest’s destruction interferes with the rainfall regime and increases greenhouse ...
Discovery of illegal palm crops comes as Grupo BBF grapples with financial problems sparked by warnings over its human rights record Located in the heart of the Amazon, it has been billed as Brazil’s ...
The Amazon now holds nearly one-fifth of the world’s recently discovered oil and natural gas reserves, establishing itself as a new global frontier for the fossil fuel industry. Almost 20 percent of ...
A complex network of actors has emerged around the critical minerals of the Amazon. Some operate along contested river corridors, trading with guerrilla groups and corrupt security forces. Others, ...
The INPE programs are vital to keep the forest standing. While Prodes generates annual deforestation rates, Deter makes daily alerts to improve monitoring against tree cutting and fires. Created in ...
O projeto da Usina Hidrelétrica (UHE) Tabajara prevê um reservatório de 97 km² em Machadinho d’Oeste. Além das 9 terras indígenas, uma análise exclusiva da InfoAmazonia em parceria com o Brasil de ...
Native to the Amazon, cacao helps preserve the forest intact, generate income and recuperate degraded areas. With demand outpacing production, the chain connected to the fruit in the country still ...
Jeremías remembers the date of his river trip: It was July 20, 2021, and on the triple border shared by Peru, Brazil and Colombia on the Amazon River, a three-nation festival was under way. He was ...
The Amazonian port of Mazán, in Loreto, Peru, features a makeshift pier with corroded ramps seemingly on the verge of collapse. Visitors are greeted by a shore littered with plastic debris, where ...