Join in for World Water Day 2025
World Water Day, held on 22 March every year, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater.
The shadow of mercury: Charque’s fight against mining pollution in the Bolivian Amazon. After a two-hour boat ride on the Beni River from the port of Rurrenabaque and a 20-minute walk through th...
Despite government efforts, many rural communities in Loreto, Peru’s northernmost region covering almost one-third of Peru’s territory, are still lack access to drinking water and sanitati...
The Time Of Water: An Alliance To Protect The Amazon Rainforest. YURIMAGUAS, Peru – The Sacred Headwaters Alliance brings together thirty Indigenous nations of the upper Amazon in Ecuador and Peru, wh...
A new study found that Andean tropical glaciers have reached their lowest levels in 11,700 years, with drastic consequences for the Amazon due to the overlap of the two ecosystems. The findings come t...
In a major victory for the communities of the Amazon’s Volta Grande do Xingu, a judge’s ruling annulled the Canadian mining company’s contract with Brazil’s Land Reform Institute, Amazon Watch reports...
A planet in collapse: the Amazon Basin. An infographic by Sumauma Journal shows river levels at record lows in what is usually one of the planet’s great sources of freshwater, as the vast rainforest b...
The Amazon Rainforest plays a crucial role in global sustainability due to its unparalleled socio-biodiversity and role in climate regulation. But deforestation, illegal mining, unregulated agricultur...
The Amazon region in Venezuela is plagued by human rights abuses and biodiversity loss. The Venezuelan NGO SOS Orinoco, together with five other organisations working in Amazonian countries (Bolivia, ...
Join in for World Water Day 2025
World Water Day, held on 22 March every year, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater.