Amazon rainforest

"Some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that's underway in America, but nobody — nobody — can reverse it," Biden said. But Trump has vowed to roll back those plans.

Illegal gold mining has ravaged the Peruvian Amazon, leaving behind pollution and denuded landscapes. A group of miners are working with a U.S. charity to restore the forest.

The southern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul and neighboring Santa Catarina are reeling after a devastating cyclone killed 27 people and displaced thousands.

As Brazil and seven other South American countries held their first Amazon summit in 14 years, WLRN spoke with expert Tracy Devine Guzmán about the successes and failures of the event — and the importance of the rainforest to South Florida.

This week on the South Florida Roundup, we got AP Psyched-out for the new school year, looked into Broward facing its own cost-of-living crisis (19:22) and why protecting the Amazon rainforest matters here (35:10).

Brazil’s Amazon Summit has come to a close with a roadmap to protect tropical rainforests that has been welcomed as an important step in countering climate change. But it did not include any of the concrete commitments to end deforestation sought by some environmentalists.

COMMENTARY As America boils, Brazil's Amazon summit reminds us that protecting Latin America's carbon capturer is as important as preserving the Everglades.

It's been 14 years since the eight countries of the Amazon region convened in a summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization. Leaders will discuss serious issues they have in common including deforestation and illegal gold mining.

The Amazon city of Guajara-Mirim has approved a law that designates the Komi Memem River "as a living entity and subject to rights." The law represents the latest effort to draw attention to a wave of invasions that had intensified under the rule of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, a historical opponent of Indigenous land rights.

A Brazilian non-profit has created a new model for land ownership that welcomes both local people and scientists to collaborate in preserving the Amazon.

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed Amazon activist Marina Silva as environment minister. It's the reaapointment of a woman who carried Brazil's most effective strategy for reducing deforestation.

As rainforest destruction hits record levels, Brazilians have rediscovered their most important eco-asset — and so should people anywhere facing sea level rise.