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Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’

From a 12-day trip to the icy Arctic to a river cruise of the Amazon, Marc Shoffman has your guide to the most exciting expeditions of 2026

Global debate about how to navigate the climate crisis often centres on high-level pledges and whether national targets are being met. Yet focusing on these technical outcomes obscures a deeper problem that keeps climate action falling short.

Planning an Amazon River adventure should feel exciting, not stressful. And choosing to travel responsibly is one of the best ways to make the experience meaningful.

A hypertropical climate has not occurred on Earth in at least 10 million years.

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could increase to 150 days per year by 2100.

Jani Silva is a renowned environmental activist in Colombia’s Amazon, but she has been unable to live in her house for nearly a decade

It borders Brazil, but French Guiana is now a remote outpost of the EU. It is home to Europe’s only spaceport, some of the most biodiverse forest on the planet and a military mission that is testing the limits of western power. By Alexander Hurst

Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet

Migrating hummingbirds rely on feeders in certain states during the coldest months

When Cop30 convened in Belém, deep inside the Amazon, the world’s attention turned once again to negotiations, emissions pledges and political manoeuvring. The global stage was set against one of Earth’s most biodiverse landscapes and some of its most vulnerable communities, yet the conversation still leaned heavily toward geopolitics rather…