It can seem like climate change affects all communities equally

It all began with a bureaucratic assignment on Jan. 12, 1830.

Nearly half (45%) of Federal Police interventions from 2010-2021 targeted illicit acts on protected areas and indigenous lands   A new study by the Igarapé institute analyzing more than 300 Federal Police operations between 2016 and 2021 found that environmental crime in the Amazon region…

The world is confronting multiple intersecting geopolitical events with highly unpredictable consequences

Agriculture has come a long way in the twenty-first century.

Any hope of keeping global temperatures under 2C depends on the acceleration of radical climate action – including in the world’s forests.

Exhaustive field research from Peru highlights the ways in which criminal actors and networks are contributing to illegal deforestation and environmental degradation   Peru’s 70 million hectares of rainforest are being razed at an alarming rate. In 2020, the country saw a record 203,000 hectares…

Ravaged by a pandemic, a brutal war in Europe, and rising social unrest over unaffordable food and fuel, the world looks anything but safe

Russia’s motives for invading Ukraine vary from security fears to revisionist historical claims that a Ukrainian national identity does not exist

The spread of Brazil’s gangs into the Amazon is hardly new.