Xavier Bartaburu

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In Rio’s largest favela, used oil becomes soap and social change

André Aram 30 Oct 2025

Virus outbreak deepens rift over return of Spix’s macaw to Brazil

Miguel Monteiro 28 Oct 2025

An Indigenous women-led revolution fights fires in Brazil’s Cerrado

Mariana Rosetti, Paola Churchill 23 Oct 2025

Negro River study finds genetic damage in fish after oil spill

Tiago da Mota e Silva 20 Oct 2025

Research aims to link Hansen’s disease & illegal armadillo hunting in Brazil

Adele Santelli 9 Oct 2025

Rare earth rush endangers rural communities and conservation areas in Brazil

Maurício Angelo, Lúcio Lambranho, Fábio Bispo, from The Mining Observatory 15 Sep 2025

In Brazil’s Pantanal, too many tourists may be the jaguar’s new predator

Francesco Schneider-Eicke 8 Sep 2025
A bird perches on debris looking for food in Brazil. Image courtesy of AP Photo/Andre Penner.

Waste-to-energy project could boost Brazil’s decarbonization goals

Adriana Amâncio 22 Aug 2025

Fate of iconic, and endangered, Brazilwood pits musical tradition against conservation

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Aug 2025

Surge in critical minerals claims puts Brazil’s land reform communities at risk

Maurício Angelo; Lúcio Lambranho; Fábio Bispo and Gabriela Sarmet (The Mining Observatory) 6 Aug 2025

Scientists & communities rush to save rare, diverse Brazilian grassland ecosystem

Letícia Klein 29 Jul 2025

Meat giant profits from carbon market without halting deforestation

Bruna Bronoski, from O Joio e O Trigo 4 Jul 2025

Brazil’s Indigenous Akroá Gamella reclaim and restore their land, one patch at a time

Felipe Duran 25 Jun 2025

Checkout counter tech eases wildlife identification in the field

Miguel Monteiro 23 Jun 2025
Large felines like jaguars need large areas to hunt and reproduce. Image courtesy of Steve Winter/Panthera

Protect one large forest, or many small ones? New study reignites conservation debate

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Jun 2025

New environmental licensing will build a power plant in the Cerrado and demolish a school

Guilherme Cavalcanti/Agência Pública 13 Jun 2025

Ecological crisis in Brazil’s Pantanal fuels human-jaguar conflict

Júlia Moa 2 Jun 2025

Mining companies use legal loopholes to move forward without environmental licensing off the Brazilian coast

Maurício Angelo and Lucio Lambranho (Observatório da Mineração) 30 May 2025

A new mall for the village: How carbon credit dollars affect Indigenous Guyanese

Clarissa Levy/Agência Pública 28 May 2025

Extreme heat, violent storms: How Rio de Janeiro is facing its new climate reality

Ambiental Media 21 May 2025

How extreme droughts could redefine the future of Amazonian fish

Tiago Mota e Silva 19 May 2025

Brazil’s offshore wind farms could sacrifice small-scale fishing in Ceará

Lobato Felizola 15 May 2025

Even in intact Amazon forests, climate change affects bird populations: Study

Suzana Camargo 14 May 2025

A rare jaguar rewilding story highlights obstacles to the big cat’s conservation in Brazil

Suzana Camargo 12 May 2025

‘Puma detectives’ highlight wildlife where Brazil’s Cerrado meets the Atlantic Forest

Letícia Klein 5 May 2025

Back to the skies: the unlikely comeback of one of Brazil’s rarest parrots

Xavier Bartaburu 14 Apr 2025

Longer periods of drought threaten Brazilian amphibians

Suzana Camargo 2 Apr 2025

Expedition links Antarctic glacial melting to climate catastrophe in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 26 Mar 2025

In a seasonally flooded Amazon forest, jaguars take to the trees

Tiago da Mota e Silva 4 Mar 2025

‘Silent killing machines’: How water canals threaten wildlife across the globe

Aldem Bourscheit 20 Feb 2025

Brazil has seen a 460% increase in climate-related disasters since the 1990s

Letícia Klein 11 Feb 2025

In Brazil, free-flight lessons help teach macaws to survive in the wild

Suzana Camargo 7 Feb 2025

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