Rhett Butler

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Forests and the Fate of Civilizations: A Conversation with John Perlin

Why biodiversity credits cannot work (commentary)

Deforestation remains low, but fires surge in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

The life and legacy of Ryan Killackey, the filmmaker who rallied international support for Yasuni (Obituary)

Orangutan conservation and communication: Gary Shapiro’s half-century journey from zoos to the wilds of Borneo

The Amazon is ablaze again. What it means for us (commentary)

Brazil’s race to approve the end of the Amazon: The BR-319 highway needs a new environmental impact assessment (commentary)

Alan Dangour on reframing climate change as a health crisis

Brazil’s BR-319 highway disaster: Yet another maneuver (commentary)

Action at Scale: Elizabeth Yee on The Rockefeller Foundation’s Climate Strategy

Jane Goodall is coming to San Francisco. Her event is sold out, but students can still get free tickets

Streak of falling deforestation snapped at 15 months in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

Scaling up the Amazon’s many bioeconomies requires investment in nature, prosperity, and inclusion (commentary)

Conservation pays and everyone’s benefitting from it (commentary)

“Game over” for the Amazon forest and global climate if Trump wins? (commentary)

Climate surprises: Amazonia and the lessons of Brazil’s catastrophic flood in Rio Grande do Sul (commentary)

Mongabay at 25: A Reflection on the Journey and Future

Using immersive media to strengthen support for the environment: An interview with Wendy Schmidt

Brazil’s BR-319 Highway: The latest maneuver to obtain approval for an environmental disaster (commentary)

Deforestation in Earth’s largest rainforest continues to plummet despite a rise in fires

Governments are ramping up actions to fight environmental crime across the Amazon, but is it working? (commentary)

Despite drought, Amazon deforestation alerts hit five-year low

Deforestation alerts in the Brazilian Amazon fall to a 5-year low

New technologies to map environmental crime in the Amazon Basin (commentary)

Jane Goodall at 90: On fame, hope, and empathy

Fires surge in the Amazon, but deforestation continues to fall

Mongabay Data Studio: Revealing nature’s hidden stories through data (commentary)

To reverse deforestation and protect biodiversity, build a bioeconomy in the Amazon (commentary)

Brazil’s BR-319 highway: The danger reaches a critical moment (commentary)

Brazil’s 2024-2027 “Transversal Environmental Agenda”: The elephants in the room (commentary)

Amazonia in flames: Unlearned lessons from the 2023 Manaus smoke crisis (commentary)

Beyond the myths: Anthropologist Alison Richard on Madagascar’s environmental realities and future

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