The Amazon's carbon tipping point

The Amazon is suffering. So are we. Here's why.

A muddy river runs through a green landscape. On one side are trees and a dense forest; the other is bare.

‘Our wealth is the forest’: Indigenous tribes are the last best hope for the Amazon

October 3, 2018The Amazon's carbon tipping point

Indigenous people are engaged in a fierce battle to defend the Amazon forest from illegal logging, and it’s working. Deforestation in indigenous territories is much lower than in other areas. But those efforts are fraught with danger.

A dry brown patch of land is dotted with trees

A ‘Third Way’ to save the Amazon: make the standing forest itself more valuable

October 3, 2018The Amazon's carbon tipping point

Fields growing soybeans for the global market have replaced dense rainforest along the Brazilian Amazon’s 'arc of deforestation.'

For illegal loggers in the Brazilian Amazon, ‘there is no fear of being punished’

October 1, 2018The Amazon's carbon tipping point

Two trees are covered in instruments strapped to their bases

The Amazon used to be a hedge against climate change. Those days may be over.

September 28, 2018The Amazon's carbon tipping point