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Mass grave in Parque Taruma cemetery in Manuas, Brazil in 2020. Photo credit: AFP

Zero convictions as impunity blocks justice for victims of Brazil’s rural violence

Daniel Camargos, from Repórter Brasil 15 Feb 2021

Pandemic fails to slow agribusiness’s thirst for Cerrado’s water

Caio de Freitas Paes 8 Feb 2021

Investigation: Dutch, Japanese pension funds pay for Amazon deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 5 Feb 2021

Dogs in Brazil are being trained to sniff out COVID-19 in humans

Matheus Lopes Quirino 9 Dec 2020

Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on Indigenous lands

Eduardo Goulart de Andrade, Hyury Potter, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 13 Nov 2020

Satellites, maps and the flow of cattle: Brazilian solutions for reducing deforestation are already in use

Naira Hofmeister, Fernanda Wenzel, Pedro Papini 12 Nov 2020

In a drier Amazon, small farmers and researchers work together to reduce fire damage

Letícia Klein, Thiago Medaglia 8 Oct 2020

The murky process of licensing Amazonian meat plants

Flávia Milhorance / Diálogo Chino 8 Oct 2020

Stock indices let Brazil meatpackers shed ties to deforestation, draw investors

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 6 Oct 2020

BlackRock’s $400m stake in Amazon meatpackers defies sustainability cred

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 24 Sep 2020

In Brazil’s Pantanal, a desperate struggle to save a hyacinth macaw refuge from fire

Jennifer Ann Thomas 17 Sep 2020

Amazon meatpacking plants, a COVID-19 hotspot, may be ground zero for next pandemic

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini, Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 11 Sep 2020
Image by ilustrativa/John Lambeth/Pexels

For European chemical giants, Brazil is an open market for toxic pesticides banned at home

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 10 Sep 2020
Giant Armadillo. Image courtesy of the Giant Armadillo Project.

In search of the ‘forest ghost,’ South America’s cryptic giant armadillo

Suzana Camargo 8 Sep 2020

Mercury from gold mining contaminates Amazon communities’ staple fish

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2020

For Brazil’s most trafficked parrot, the poaching is relentless

Dimas Marques 1 Sep 2020

Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse

Maurício Angelo 19 Aug 2020

In Brazil, human action and climate change are drowning a community

Rafael Duarte 18 Aug 2020

Favoring ayahuasca over hospitals, Indigenous Kokama see COVID-19 deaths drop in the Amazon

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 17 Aug 2020

All talk, no walk: ‘Green’ financiers still support Amazon beef industry

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini, Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 13 Aug 2020

Pioneer study maps regions of Amazon tree flora and may help in future efforts at species conservation

Jenny Gonzales 13 Aug 2020

Paper maze and lack of transparency cloak investment in companies involved in Amazon deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini, Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 11 Aug 2020

Deforestation in the Amazon is drying up the rest of Brazil: Report

Sibélia Zanon 7 Aug 2020

In California, forest fires spark a babel of birdsong, study shows

Jennifer Ann Thomas, Veja 4 Aug 2020

Deaths of Yanomami babies from COVID-19 bring anguish to mothers

Jennifer Ann Thomas 3 Aug 2020

Indigenous Ashaninka launch fundraiser to help Amazon neighbors amid pandemic

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 29 Jul 2020

A Brazilian forest community shows certified timber really does work

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 22 Jul 2020

Where there’s cattle ranching and soybean farming, there’s fire, study finds

Marcelo Coppola 20 Jul 2020

International investors urge Brazil to take real action to stop deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel from ((o))eco 17 Jul 2020

Corn growers in Brazil’s Cerrado reap a hostile climate of their own making

Maurício Angelo 15 Jul 2020

The woman building the forest corridors saving Brazil’s black lion tamarin

Sibélia Zanon 14 Jul 2020

‘Unacceptably high’ risk of tailings dam failure in Canadian miner’s Amazon project

Maurício Angelo 10 Jul 2020

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