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In Amazon rivers, fish breathe and ingest plastics

Tiago da Mota e Silva 10 Aug 2026

For Brazil’s Xokleng people, saving a sacred tree means saving their culture

Letícia Klein 23 Jul 2026

Health fears linger in a Brazilian neighborhood built over oil waste

Leandro Barbosa 21 Jul 2026

From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon

Tiago da Mota e Silva 20 Jul 2026

Can harpy eagles attack humans? Amazon case rekindles scientific debate

Tiago Mota e Silva 17 Jul 2026

Invasive giant prawn spreads through protected areas in Brazil

Evanildo da Silveira 16 Jul 2026

Rising seas, garbage and heat threaten Brazil’s migratory shorebirds

Sibélia Zanon 14 Jul 2026

Foreign nationals attempt to fly to Europe with rare cacti from southern Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jun 2026

As Amazon oil drilling begins, scientists warn of risks to a little-known reef

Suzana Camargo 29 Jun 2026

Rewilding Rio: Conservationists restock an ‘empty forest,’ one species at a time

Suzana Camargo 24 Jun 2026

Global pressure on ayahuasca threatens Amazonian plants and knowledge systems

Carlos Minuano 23 Jun 2026

Scientists race to study the Amazon’s frogs before they disappear

Tiago da Mota e Silva 13 May 2026

Who are the women sustaining luxury fishing in Brazil’s Pantanal?

Mariana Rosetti, Paola Churchill 12 May 2026

What tree rings reveal about climate change in the Amazon

Luís Patriani 11 May 2026

In Brazil, unfinished water project leaves Indigenous villages without safe water

Felipe Medeiros, Adriana Amâncio 14 Apr 2026

Giant otters, river sentinels, now listed as threatened migratory species

Gustavo Faleiros 9 Apr 2026

As EU-Mercosur agreement goes into effect, environmentalists raise red flags

Ramana Rech 8 Apr 2026

Railroad & tariff war boost soy in Brazil’s Cerrado, endangering Indigenous lands

Kevin Damasio 2 Apr 2026

Peru-Brazil Bioceanic Railway brings too much risk to the Amazon, experts warn

Yvette Sierra Praeli 31 Mar 2026

In Peru, Indigenous women work to save an ancestral potato from disappearance

Astrid Arellano 31 Mar 2026

Brazilian settlers turn to reforestation in ambitious land recovery plan

Sibélia Zanon 30 Mar 2026

Across South America, canopy bridges evolve as a lifeline for tree-dwelling wildlife

Luís Patriani 4 Mar 2026

Seven years after Brazil’s worst dam disaster, mining operations bounce back

Felipe S. Duran, Mylena Melo 16 Feb 2026

The Belo Monte hydropower dam on the Xingu River in Brazil’s Pará state. Image courtesy of TV Brasil.

Fish deformities expose ‘collapse’ of Xingu River’s pulse after construction of Belo Monte Dam

Tiago da Mota e Silva 31 Dec 2025

The first amphibian to halt a hydroelectric dam now takes on the climate crisis

Thamys Trindade 22 Dec 2025

Rio Doce communities still live with toxic water, 10 years after Mariana disaster

Ramana Rech 17 Dec 2025

Stricter rules adopted to protect sloths from pet trade and selfie tourism

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2025

To save jaguars from extinction, scientists in Brazil are trying IVF and cloning

Letícia Klein 5 Dec 2025

Why are Amazonian trees getting ‘fatter’?

Suzana Camargo 24 Nov 2025

With COP30, Indigenous Brazilians strive for new resources to protect nature

Sara Baptista 20 Nov 2025

Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says

Lucas Berti 18 Nov 2025

As fires flare in Brazil’s Cerrado, heat-resistant seeds offer restoration lifeline

Simone Machado 17 Nov 2025

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