Terrence McCoy

• Americas

Dusty wells. Streams ebbing away. Pristine reserves aflame. Some scientists think the tipping point is already here.

• Americas

Journalist Dom Phillips was following Indigenous rights activist Bruno Pereira when both men disappeared along a remote river.

• The Amazon, Undone

The ongoing and lawless destruction of the Amazon rainforest, a unique resource seen as vital to averting catastrophic global warming, is an environmental emergency.

• Americas

Whether or not Brazil's president wins a second term, Bolsonarismo is here to stay.

• Americas

Voters, analysts and the candidates themselves have framed the election as an existential choice, less about policy than about the very character of the nation.

• Americas

Inspection agencies have been gutted. The courts are lenient. Appeals can grind on forever. Deforesters keep deforesting, because they know they can.

• Americas

Every day, deforestation brings the rainforest closer to what scientists warn will be its death, when the loss of tree cover finally pushes it past the point of no return and the world loses its greatest shield against rising temperatures.

• Americas

The eight-time world champion was considered one of the most gifted fighters to have ever entered the sport.

• Americas

In the Amazon, there's little political cost to destroying the rainforest.