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Artist Adriana Varejão mixes tropical and baroque aesthetics at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library.

A Brazilian Artist Invites Us to Meet Mythical Amazonian Creatures Face to Face

Adriana Varejão brings Amazonian folklore and colonial critique to Manhattan.

Another Crisis in Brazil’s Amazon: Rising Crime

It’s not just the environment that’s vulnerable to growing regional criminal groups, an expert writes.

AQ Podcast: Who’s Who in Ecuador’s Election

A look ahead to the runoff on October 15. What can we expect from the candidates and what is at stake?

Indigenous leaders and OTCA member countries' representatives at a meeting in Brasilia in July.

Can Amazon Basin Presidents Find Consensus on Protecting the Forest?

AQ talked to Kleber Karipuna, member of the organizing committee of the OTCA presidential summit, on the challenges facing the region—from crime to carbon markets.

Devastation at Amazon Coffee Co-op Profiled by AQ

Brazilian police are investigating after a plane sprayed herbicide in the area.

Salgado’s “Amazônia” Shows What’s at Stake at COP26

A new exhibit at the London Science Museum features moving images of an ecosystem under threat.

Hydroelectric Energy in the Peruvian Amazon: The Inambari Puzzle

Peru’s appetite for investment has again led it deep into the Amazon jungle. This time a new hydroelectricity project, the Inambari Dam, is poised to bring irreversible social and environmental changes to the region. Inambari, to be developed in the buffer zone of the Bahuaja-Sonene National Park, will be the largest hydroelectricity project in Peru … Read more

Land Rights and Preservation

Although Brazil is among the 15 largest economies in the world, its land policies remain stubbornly stuck in a state of limbo between the modern and the archaic. Technological advances in agriculture have turned Brazilian farms into some of the world’s most productive; yet we have continued a pattern of exploitive rural settlement that dates … Read more