Top brands buy carbon credits from suspected scam operation in the Amazon
Two projects whose carbon offset credits were sold to companies such as Gol, Nestlé, Toshiba, and PwC may have laundered timber illegally sourced from deforested areas. This report is part of the Opaque Carbon series, which brings together 14 Latin American media outlets
Short but terrifying – the human ‘event’
Planetary historians have rejected proposals to announce a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, but nobody doubts the impact of our species on the world will last for thousands of years
Sarayaku victory against oil exploitation is an inspiration for the entire Amazon
For 40 years, this indigenous people in Ecuador have fought against multiple actors to protect the living rainforest, setting an example that can be followed by other indigenous peoples and traditional communities
The threat to Latin America’s largest tree and other stories
A two-minute round-up of the latest news about the Amazon
José Gualinga Montalvo: ‘The jungle is a living, intelligent and conscious being’
The Sarayaku people of the Ecuadorian Amazon propose that human societies should be governed by the concept of 'Kawsak Sacha', or 'Living Forest', in order to change the destructive relationships that have led the planet to climate collapse
An Amazonian look back at COP-28 and forward to Belém in 2025
The Dubai UN summit experience of Wenatoa Parakanã and Marina Silva shows the contradictions of Brazil, which plans to increase oil exploration while reducing deforestation. The gigantic conference in Dubai also raises the question of whether COP30 in Belém should go back to basics
Exhausted, yes, but we’ve finished 2023 standing strong
What we’ve witnessed, what we’ve faced, what has happened, and what’s to come
‘Drilling for oil in the Amazon is a contradiction in terms,’ says Petro at COP28
At a conference that looks like it is set in a theme park, Lula undermines the government’s environmental credibility by announcing that Brazil will join OPEC+. Colombian president says only a new, progressive generation can move Latin America away from fossil fuels
Amazonian Whodunnit
Humanity is to blame for the slow death of the rainforest, but we are not equally responsible. The fingerprints of carbon inequality are all over this crime scene
COP28 is a bubble of white men that activists and Indigenous and Black people are trying to break through
Fossil fuels are the challenge at this year’s climate conference, but the slow pace of negotiations has socioenvironmental and antiracist movements frustrated, as deaths due to the impacts of global heating mount across the planet
