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JBS broke its own rules while buying cattle from deforested areas in Pantanal

Naira Hofmeister, Fernanda Wenzel 31 Oct 2024

Deforestation plunges but environmental threats remain as Colombia hosts COP16

Lucas Berti 21 Oct 2024

Extreme drought wrecks rivers and daily life in Amazon’s most burnt Indigenous land

João Paulo Guimarães 18 Oct 2024

Amazon voters elect environmental offenders and climate denialists in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Oct 2024

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal in the Amazon faces bumpy road ahead

Carla Ruas 9 Oct 2024
Clusters of ancient drawings known as geoglyphs have been seen in the state of Acre. Image courtesy of Diego Gurgel/Secom.

New conservation model calls for protecting Amazon for its archaeological riches

Peter Speetjens 4 Oct 2024

Brazil cracks down on illegal gold mining, sparking anger in the Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 27 Sep 2024

‘We need white men on our side to save the Amazon from destruction,’ 92-year-old Indigenous Chief Raoni says

Carla Ruas 26 Sep 2024

CHAPTER 6. Culture and demographics defines the Pan Amazon’s present

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Sep 2024

Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024

How the Brazilian military sabotaged protection of Indigenous people in the Amazon

André Schröder 16 Sep 2024

Extreme drought pushes Amazon’s main rivers to lowest-ever levels

Fernanda Wenzel 11 Sep 2024

Resilient and resourceful, Brazil’s illegal gold capital resists government crackdown

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Sep 2024
Tropical rainforests are not adapted to fire, and have no natural fire regime.

Brazil launches ‘war’ on widespread fire outbreaks & criminal arsonists

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Aug 2024

Study shows most Amazon beef & soy demand comes from Brazil — not exports

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Aug 2024
Cattle raising in recently destroyed forestland in the municipality Aripuanã, in Mato Grosso state.

Biden Administration mistakenly seeks delay of EU’s new deforestation regulation (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 13 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

After historic 2023 drought, Amazon communities brace for more in Brazil

Amanda Magnani 10 Jul 2024

Brazil’s new pro-agribusiness pesticide law threatens Amazon biodiversity

André Schröder 3 Jul 2024

Fire bans not effective as the Amazon and Pantanal burn, study says

Fernanda Wenzel 27 Jun 2024

Wai Wai people’s push for direct access to Brazil nut market

Avener Prado, Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie 24 Jun 2024

Indigenous Wai Wai seek markets for Brazil nuts without middlemen

Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie and Avener Prado 24 Jun 2024

Fraud and corruption drive illegal wildlife trade in the Amazon

Carla Ruas 18 Jun 2024

Brazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay

Fernanda Wenzel 7 Jun 2024
Extensive cattle ranch Estância Bahia, in Água Boa, Mato Grosso state.

New bill to expand farmlands in the Amazon may derail Brazil’s green efforts

Fernanda Wenzel 29 May 2024
Some of the artists with the art installation

Mongabay investigation is turned into art for World Press Freedom Day event

Karla Mendes 27 May 2024

How environmental crimes are covered up in the Amazon?

Mongabay.com 22 Apr 2024
A cattle ranch in a deforeated area.

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2024
Satellite image of wildfires in Quebec, Canada, in June, 2023.

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2024

Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state

Sam Cowie, Rodrigo Pedroso, Avener Prado 12 Mar 2024
A harvester harvesting soy in Brazil.

Meet the think tank behind the agribusiness’ legislative wins in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jan 2024
Researcher Guilherme Cabral

Why the Amazon’s small streams have a major impact on its grand rivers

18 Jan 2024

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