My first feature for @AP global climate team. Great to be out reporting again. Colombia's river guardians risk their lives to help protect the Atrato from illegal gold mining - an increasingly hopeless battle in this violent and forgotten region.

RT @peterprengaman: About those plastic straws...@AP colleague Jennifer G. McDermott reports on how this little piece of plastic has become…

“The implications of the Trump administration for the Amazon rainforest range from very concerning to horrifying.” With analysis from the Amazon´s Indigenous, @MarinaSilva, @amazonwatch, @WOLA_org and leading Brazilian scientist Carlos Nobre.

RT @peterprengaman: On his first day in office, President Trump took aim at energy efficiency. Here colleagues Alexa St. John and Seth Bore…

@mrbrownsir @AP Congrats Matt <3

@jakespring Jake, this is huge! Major congrats 🍾🎉

RT @cipenza: Nota de @AP @sjgrattan que toma mis declaraciones en Drought, fires and deforestation battered Amazon rainforest in 2024 [Sequ…

RT @BramEbus: For the Amazon Basin, 2024 has been a brutal year. “The well-being of the Amazon is a shared global responsibility, as consu…

Here’s a wrap up of the Amazon Rainforest 2024:

RT @WOLA_org: 🌳 Fighting deforestation in South America “means fighting sophisticated transnational organized crime networks.” WOLA's Gimen…

RT @BramEbus: Deforestation escalated on the border of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay as @Interpol targeted environmental crimes. "It is…

Paraguayan authorities arrested 26 people in a crackdown on suspected illegal deforestation along the country’s border with Brazil and Argentina, @INTERPOL_HQ announced Monday.

RT @AmazonUworld: ¡Trabaja con nosotros!

Honduras, Guatemala & El Salvador likely to be the first and most drastically affected by Trump's promise of mass deportations. By @meganjanetsky

RT @schmidtsam7: How a viral song became the latest symbol of Venezuela’s crackdown. Our story on "Veneka" and the decision to cancel a ho…

RT @peterprengaman: NewsAlert: Nations at UN climate agree on $300B a year for poor countries to curb and adapt to warming in a compromise…

Indigenous leaders from the Wampis Nation in Peru are urging lawmakers at the House of Commons in London to ban international banks’ support for Amazon oil activities they say harm their ancestral rainforests.

RT @aaronlmorrison: Beautiful portraits and important story by my colleagues! Indigenous peoples, impacted by climate change, raise alarm…

RT @sibi123: “Oil is not a gift from god,” @susanamuhamad told @AP_Climate at @COP29_AZ, referring to a comment made by Azerbaijan’s presid…

“They’re doing it for a combination of different reasons, some of them economic, some basically completely moral and oriented around the climate crisis. What is really bad … is that they’re not being backed up by the international financial community.”