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We’re used to debating the region’s environment. But far-western Brazil has lots of urban problems too.

A drying climate caused a mass extinction among plants, but paved the way for the ancestors of modern reptiles, mammals, and birds.

Which species are becoming endangered and which are recovering, according to the IUCN World Conservation Congress?

The British empire brought the practice of commons enclosure to Africa to claim land. Its effects continue today at sites like the Liesbeek River in Cape Town.

Many of Africa’s forests are unknown to the public at large, yet so fascinating and important.

Moo Deng is a celebrity now. But 80% of her native forest has been lost.

Widespread adoption of a largely meat-free diet could feed the world and leave our forests intact.

Brazil’s president-elect wants to roll back environmental laws, saying they hurt rural growth. But preventing Amazonian deforestation has actually made farmland more productive.

Hundreds of bishops, priests, missionaries and tribal leaders are at the Vatican for the Synod of the Amazon, a three-week meeting focused on the environmental crisis threatening Amazonian peoples.

Brazil’s new president could clear the way for plans to develop remote areas around the Tapajos River basin over the objections of the indigenous people who live there.