Sarah Brown

Sarah Brown

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Sarah Brown is a freelance journalist with a passion for the environment, sustainability and travel. Her work has been featured in the Evening Standard, Atlas Obscura and World Travel Magazine, among others. Follow her on Twitter via @BrSarahTr.

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irrigation field

Groundwater overuse puts Brazil’s river flow at risk, study finds

Sarah Brown 3 Apr 2025
jaguar cage

Ambitious conservation projects pave the way for Argentina’s jaguar recovery

Sarah Brown 25 Mar 2025
A 2023 expedition along the Uatumã River documented biodiversity loss linked to the Balbina dam. In 2024, a survey of the undammed Jatapu River revealed a region teeming with life. Image courtesy of the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA).

Endemic fish wiped out in Brazilian Amazon hydroelectric dam area, study finds

Sarah Brown 25 Feb 2025

Lula pushes oil drilling at mouth of Amazon despite climate risks

Sarah Brown 21 Feb 2025

Companies banking on tech and collaboration to comply with EUDR

Sarah Brown 31 Dec 2024

A deadly parasite turns jaguar conservation into a human health priority

Sarah Brown 30 Dec 2024

Recycling gold can tackle illegal mining in the Amazon, but is no silver bullet

Sarah Brown 13 Dec 2024

Foreign investor lawsuits impede Honduras human rights & environment protections

Sarah Brown 12 Dec 2024

Study: REDD+ doesn’t work without Indigenous peoples, but fails to engage them

Sarah Brown 24 Oct 2024

Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024
man

Experts call for urgent action as invasive species threatens Brazil mangroves

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024
An Amazonian manatee in a zoo.

As Amazonian rivers recede under drought, manatees are left exposed to poaching

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024

Eucalyptus expansion worsens droughts and fires in Brazil’s Cerrado, conservationists say

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024
Women in the São João da Ponta Extractive Reserve fish for crabs on the Mocajuba River in the Amazonian mangroves of northern Brazil.

Brazil’s ‘Mothers of the Mangroves’ protect an ecological and cultural heritage

Sarah Brown 19 Aug 2024
Luís Adriano Nascimento, chemist and vice-coordinator of the Laboratório de Óleos da Amazônia (Amazon Oils Laboratory, LOA), stands at a lab bench with a wide collection of Amazonian fruits and seeds used to make oils, biofuels and bioplastics.

Raw materials become high-value bioeconomy goods at an Amazon science park

Sarah Brown 6 Aug 2024

To host 2025 climate summit, Brazil will carve up an Amazonian reserve

Sarah Brown 23 Jul 2024
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Shrimp farms threaten Mexico’s mangroves and the jaguars that inhabit them

Sarah Brown 11 Jul 2024

Reintroduction project brings golden parakeets back to the skies of Brazil’s Belém

Sarah Brown 26 Jun 2024

In Brazil, conservationists try to save one of the world’s most endangered cats

Sarah Brown 13 Jun 2024

Indigenous leader’s killer is convicted in Brazil, but tensions over land remain

Sarah Brown 7 May 2024

Scientists collaborate to conserve the endangered Guiana Dolphins

Kashfi Halford, Sarah Brown 30 Apr 2024
oil spill Peru

Latest Peruvian oil spill cuts Indigenous communities from life-giving river

Sarah Brown 25 Apr 2024

Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests

Sarah Brown 23 Apr 2024

Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state

Sarah Brown 19 Apr 2024
jaguar cub

Jaguar release offers a lifeline to Gran Chaco’s lonely big cats

Sarah Brown 27 Mar 2024

Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil

Sarah Brown 12 Feb 2024
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

Grassroots efforts and an Emmy-winning film help Indigenous fight in Brazil

Sarah Brown 29 Jan 2024

Amazon chocolatiers: Biofactory offers ‘new way of living’ for forest communities

Sarah Brown 2 Jan 2024

Outcry as Brazil Congress overrides president to revive anti-Indigenous law

Sarah Brown 15 Dec 2023
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Amazon deforestation declines but fossil fuels remain contentious, COP28 shows

Sarah Brown 7 Dec 2023

A Brazilian NGO restores widely degraded Atlantic Forest amid mining threats

Sarah Brown 6 Dec 2023

Prolonged drought brings unprecedented changes to Amazonian communities in Pará

Sarah Brown 6 Dec 2023

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Saiga herd during a calving period. Image by Albert Salemgareyev and courtesy of the Association for the Conservation Biodiversity of Kazakhstan/Vera Voronova.
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