Chronicles/ November 20, 2020Record Fires This Year Edge the Amazon Rainforest and Our Climate Closer to the BrinkFrom Siberia to Australia, California to the Amazon, 2020 was another record setting year for…Read more Jena Webb
Chronicles/ May 8, 2020COVID-19, A Stern Warning From NatureThis chronicle follows the causal arc from biodiversity loss through to increasing pandemics, putting at…Read more Jena Webb
Chronicles/ December 18, 2019Women and EcosystemsOver the centuries many parallels have been drawn between women and the earth, starting with…Read more Jena Webb
Chronicles/ September 16, 2019Three Critical Consequences Of The Amazon Fires: Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change and HealthThe Amazonian fires that captured the world’s attention in late August 2019 are a calamity…Read more Jena Webb
Chronicles/ July 24, 2019Palm Oil: Unhealthy For You And The AmazonThere are palm oil trees as far as the eye can see, like so many…Read more Jena Webb
Chronicles/ May 24, 2019Tapping into the Amazon’s RainFor many of you who are reading this Chronicle, access to potable water, directly into your…Read more Jena Webb
Chronicles/ February 20, 2019Indigenous-led Conservation in the Amazon: A win-win-win solutionClimate change, deforestation, conservation and protected areas – these topics now abound in the mainstream…Read more Jena Webb
Chronicles/ October 18, 2018The buzz on deforestation and vector-borne diseases in the AmazonGetting comfortable on my mat, after day of field work on the frontlines of deforestation…Read more Jena Webb
Media Coverage/ August 9, 2018The Ayahuasca Remedy: Respite, Release, ReposeMirroring recent international interest in experimenting with ayahuasca – known in the tri-national Amazonian region…Read more Jena Webb
Chronicles/ June 17, 2018Bleeding the Flying River Dry: Deforestation, Climate Change and Drought in the AmazonDrought in the wettest place on Earth, you ask? How could this be? Alas, since…Read more Jena Webb
Chronicles/ May 31, 2018The Heart of the Matter: Amazonian Diet Among the Best in the WorldThe yuca is boiling in a witch-like cauldron, heavily dented from years of use, over…Read more Jena Webb
Chronicles/ April 19, 2018What Do We Know About How Oil Spills Affect Human Health? Not Enough.Planes, trains and automobiles. Plastic, pesticides and polyester. Oil and gas have been the engine…Read more Jena Webb