by Editorial | Sep 11, 2026 | Analysis, Deforestation, Indigenous Territories and Rights, Mercury Contamination, Mining and Mineral Extraction, Pan-Amazon
You do not live in the Amazon. You may never see it. And its collapse would still reach into your life, through the price of your food, the stability of your climate, and the speed at which the planet you depend on becomes harder to live on. The developments now...
by Colombian Amazon Journal Investigations Desk | Sep 11, 2026 | Analysis, Brazil, China, Chancay & Amazon Corridors, Geopolitics, Indigenous Territories and Rights, Peru, Trade, Infrastructure & Commodity Signals
“China’s Amazonian Railway” is not an official project name. It is the label English-language coverage attaches to a recurring idea: a bi-oceanic railway linking Brazil’s Atlantic-facing rail network to a Pacific port in Peru, across parts of...
by Colombian Amazon Journal Investigations Desk | Aug 15, 2026 | Analysis, Brazil, Conservation, Land & Territorial Rights, Resource Extraction
An illegal gold-mining site carved into the Amazon rainforest, 2026. Photograph by CAJ Staff Photographer. A new Brazilian bill aims to accelerate Brazil’s role in the global critical minerals race, but environmental experts warn that the legislation is...