Amazon people brace for a drier future along the endangered Madeira River.
The Madeira River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, has been losing water flow over the last 20 years while facing severe... Read More
Indigenous river campaigner from Peru wins prestigious Goldman prize.
Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari led a successful legal battle to protect the Marañon River in the Peruvian Amazon.
An Indigenous ... Read More
World Water Day: 3 stories of resistance and restoration from around the globe.
More than 2 billion people around the world live without access to safe drinkable water, as rivers, groundwater, lakes ... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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 ... Read More
