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Tree seedlings on a former pasture that borders rainforest in Mãe do Rio, Brazil.

To save the Amazon, a project is making sure cattle farmers earn another living

The stakes are high. About one-fifth of what some call “the lungs of the world” is already gone. Now Microsoft and other corporations are getting involved.

  • Manuela Andreoni

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French President Emmanuel Macron, left, embraces Chief Raoni Metuktire after presenting him with the French distinction, the Legion of Honor.

‘I promised to come to your forest’: Macron honours tribal chief, reveals $1.6b plan to protect the Amazon

The French and Brazilian governments have launched a four-year plan to protect the Amazon rainforest, in the process reviving their bilateral relationship.

  • Mauricio Savarese and Sylvie Corbet
A boat is stuck in the Negro River during a drought in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, on Monday. The high rises of the Manaus CBD are visible in the background.

Rivers in the Amazon fall to their lowest levels in 120 years

The Negro River is the Amazon’s largest tributary and the world’s sixth-largest by water volume.

  • Fabiano Maisonnave
Leaders of South American nations pose for a group photo during the Amazon Summit in Belem, Brazil. From left: the presidents of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Bolivia, Luis Arce, Peru, Dina Boluarte, and Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.

Amazon countries sign rainforest pact to save it

Numerous studies have indicated that further deforestation would transform the Amazon into a net emitter of greenhouse gases and be disastrous to the planet.

  • Manuela Andreoni and Max Bearak
Brazilian ederal agents destroy an illegal mining barge inside Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, on Tuesday.

Elon Musk brought high-speed internet to the Amazon. Criminals love it

Illegal miners and those destroying the forest had to contend with bad access to the outside world. Not anymore.

  • Fabiano Maisonnave
A Yanomami boy interacts with a Yanomami woman carrying a baby at the Saude Indigenous House, a support centre in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil, on Wednesday.

Dozens of Yanomami children hospitalised in Amazon amid health crisis

An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in the country’s largest indigenous reservation now under a health emergency declaration.

  • Leonardo Benassatto and Amanda Perobelli
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An area of forest burns, top right, near a logging area in the Transamazonica highway region, in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil.

The Amazon is deteriorating too fast for species, people and climate to adapt

The critical ecosystem is being damaged at an unprecedented pace with grievous effects on biodiversity and human welfare, researchers say.

  • Carly Wanna
A barge transports logs cut from the Amazon rainforest in Guama river in Belem, northern state of Para, Brazil, last weekend.

Lula restarts anti-deforestation raids in the Amazon

Reporter accompanied raids led by environmental agency Ibama to stop loggers and farmers illegally clearing land in the rainforest state of Para.

  • Jake Spring
An area of forest on fire near a logging area in the Transamazonica highway region, in Amazonas state, Brazil, in September.

The world hopes Lula will save the Amazon. After Bolsonaro, it won’t be easy

If its new president-elect keeps his promises to safeguard the rainforest, Brazil could have a major impact on the global fight against climate change.

  • Paulina Villegas and Sarah Kaplan
Smoke rises from forest fires in the region of Novo Progresso, in Pará state, Brazil, last week.

Brazil’s Amazon records worst August fires since 2010

The devastation generally caused by farmers lighting fires to clear land in drier months is more widespread than the blazes that set off global outrage in 2019.

  • Gabriel Araujo

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