Articles by The Ecologist

Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest. Photo credit: lubasi (Wikimedia)

Articles, Climate Change, Nature & Environment, Policy & Strategy November 27, 2025

Highway to Hell

The BR-319 threatens the Amazon in the name of ‘progress’ and politics. Plans to reconstruct the controversial BR-319 highway have now been formally announced and…

The Lost Bayou: Grand Bayou

Grand Bayou, LA. At one time, it was a lively community of close-knit families, until they were forced to leave. ©2020. Garde Voir Ci magazine. Nicholls State University Department of Mass Communication.

World Rainforest Day

Rainforests cover only 2 percent of the planet’s surface area but are responsible for more than 25% of all Western medicine and house more than 50% of the world’s plant and animal species.