"The findings, related to gold mining in Peru, provide new evidence of how people are altering ecosystems in dangerous ways around the world."

The Guardian: Revealed: the places humanity must not destroy to avoid climate chaos. >"Tiny proportion of world’s _...Read More_

"The Amazon rainforest is now emitting more carbon dioxide than it is able to absorb, scientists have confirmed for the first time."

>"Protected land reserved for Brazil's indigenous communities is being traded on the social network."

Once a new virus begins circulating among humans, the consequences of a brief encounter at the edge of a forest or at a wet market could be devastating. Covid-19 has shown that. Ebola has proved it. And in most of the scientific _...Read More_

Using multispectral cameras high above the jungle, photographer Richard Mosse documents humanity's suicidal "war on nature."

>"An area seven times larger than Greater London has been lost in what one activist called a ‘humiliating and shameful’ _...Read More_

“YOU ARE NOT AS COMPLEX AS THE RAINFOREST” “When you say that the oil companies have marvellous new technologies that can sip the oil from beneath our lands like hummingbirds sip nectar from a flower, we know that you are lying because we _...Read More_

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Researchers may have unlocked a mystery surrounding unique aquatic insects in the Flathead watershed.

After a long legal battle with a number of organizations, the Waorani people successfully protected half a million acres of their ancestral territory in the Amazon rainforest from being mined for oil drilling by huge oil corporations. The _...Read More_

"Investigators are looking into reports that around 10 tribe members died when they were set upon by gold miners."