Community Forestry Addresses Environmental Destruction in Mexico
Community-based governance structures put decision-making about Ixlán de Juarez’s forests into local hands, creating economic opportunity and reversing centuries of deforestation in the town.
The Amazon in Times of War (Review)
Marcos Colón’s book, grounded in the experiences of Indigenous communities, examines how the institutional violence of Jair Bolsonaro’s government resulted in the environmental destruction of the Brazilian Amazon.
Amazonia on the Brink
Our Summer 2023 issue of the NACLA Report brings movement voices together with research and analysis to lay out what's at stake in the Amazon and how to avert a deeper crisis.
The Amazon Can’t Survive Another Bolsonaro Government
CO2 emissions in the Amazon doubled in Bolsonaro's first two years in office. A new study shows that the rainforest may be nearing the point of no return.
Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s Last Journey
A suspect has admitted to killing the journalist and Indigenous expert while they were reporting in the Amazon. Agência Pública retraces the steps of their final trip.
La Encrucijada’s Dilemma: Greenwashing Oil Palm in Chiapas
On Mexico's Pacific coast, the government and businesses are trying to legalize a huge area of illegally-cultivated oil palm by reducing the size of an environmental reserve.
Central America’s Endangered Lungs
On Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, Black and Indigenous forest rangers take environmental protection into their own hands.
Latin America’s Green New Deal
Read the editors' introduction to our latest print issue of the NACLA Report, A Green New Deal for the Americas, focused on radical climate action and the prospects of ecosocialism across borders.
The Burning Quest to Revive a Nationalist Vision in Brazil’s Amazon
Record fires in Brazil's Amazon this year marked a political protest led by ranchers who, already empowered under Bolsonaro's government, are keen to push the government to fully embrace a dictatorship-era extractive doctrine.
“It’s Already Clear that Capitalism is Not Sustainable”: An Interview with Simón Mejía of Bomba Esté...
An interview with Simón Mejía of Bomba Estéreo on the Colombian band's effort to preserve Colombia's rainforests.
Bolsonaro’s Environmental Assault
As far-right neo-fascist Jair Bolsonaro takes office in Brazil, the radical changes his administration proposes could set off a wave of state-sponsored violence, plunder, and environmental destruction.
Brazil’s Environmentalist Façade Unmasked at COP22
Brazil’s new Minister of Agriculture, Blairo Maggi, struggled to respond to civil society challenges at COP22, as the country’s commitment to environmental rights deteriorates.
