It’s a late afternoon in February, and three young men lounge on the deck of an old boat with peeling white paint moored along Brazil’s Puruê River, deep in the Amazon near the southernmost tip of ...

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 ...

According to a new study from RAISG, in just five years, the Amazon could lose almost half of what it lost in the past two decades. According to a new study from RAISG, in just five years, the Amazon ...

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 ...

Maria talks fondly about the peaceful rural community where she grew up. As a child, she recalls playing games in the forest and in the river with the other kids, picking fresh açaí berries and ...

Concept goes beyond the defense of strengthening forest products, and carries the prefix ‘socio’ to show that the way local communities work in the economy in the Amazon, preserving its diversity, is ...

“They bring the whole fruit in the canoe to the base. There, they break them and, once they’re broken, they’re weighed and I pay for them. After, the rest of the work is up to me. I have an employee ...

Contrary to forecasts made in the 1990s, over 40 areas are guaranteeing the protection of the species without driving the pirarucu to extinction. In addition, sales of the fish provide income to ...

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 ...

Moonlight seeps through an opening in the palm-thatch roof of the maloca, a circular communal house in the Indigenous village of La Pedrera, in a remote corner of southern Colombia. Seated in the ...

Conferência discute financiamento para conservação de países megadiversos, como o Brasil. A Amazônia se destaca por seu alto grau de endemismo, com espécies que só podem ser encontradas por lá, além ...

InfoAmazonia e PlenaMata mostram antes e depois do desmatamento desde 2019 em regiões-chave para o combate à perda de floresta. O presidente Jair Bolsonaro (PL), que tenta a reeleição neste domingo ...