Commentary

Robert Muggah explores how "a flourishing ecosystem of criminal groups is busy sacking the forest and rivers for cash and power" in the Peruvian Amazon.

Jamil Anderlini, Carla Anne Robbins, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Robert Muggah examines why "nature-based solutions that revalue and protect forests" are among the best strategies for combatting climate warming.

Karen DeYoung, Gideon Rachman, and Nahal Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

"The rampant spread of climate misinformation and disinformation has potentially dire implications for the Amazon Basin," cowrites Robert Muggah in the Washington Post.

"The populist president and his devotees are casting a dark cloud over the October vote," writes Robert Muggah.

Check out the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

Our weekly roundup the top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

Host Brian Hanson checks the pulse of democracy in Nicaragua with researcher Ryan Berg and journalist Cindy Regidor.

The Council's Robert Muggah offers TEDxSaoPaulo five priorities to disrupt the crime and corruption that threatens not just Latin America, but the world.