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A Brazilian forest community shows certified timber really does work

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 22 Jul 2020

Forest restoration, not just halting deforestation, vital to Amazon

Sarah Sax 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

Only a few ‘rotten apples’ causing most illegal Brazil deforestation: Study

Sarah Sax 17 Jul 2020

Brazilian meatpacker expands with World Bank funding but fails to reduce impacts in the Amazon

Naira Hofmeister 9 Jul 2020

Prosecutors target Brazil’s environment minister over dismantling of protections

Suzana Camargo 8 Jul 2020
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazil bows to pressure from business, decrees 120-day Amazon fire ban

Jenny Gonzales 8 Jul 2020

World’s biggest trade deal in trouble over EU anger at Brazil deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 6 Jul 2020

In the Amazon, a farmer practices the future of sustainable cattle ranching

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 28 May 2020

Green alert: How indigenous people are experiencing climate change in the Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 27 May 2020

Brazil minister advises using COVID-19 to distract from Amazon deregulation

Jenny Gonzales 26 May 2020

Brazilian taxpayers subsidizing Amazon-clearing cattle ranches, study shows

Naira Hofmeister 26 May 2020
Uncontacted indigenous group in the Amazon photographed by authorities with the Brazilian Indian affairs agency FUNAI. Photo by Gleison Miranda-FUNAI.

Indigenous COVID-19 cases top 500, danger mapped in Brazil agricultural hub

Sam Cowie 18 May 2020

Soy made the Cerrado a breadbasket; climate change may end that

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 5 May 2020

As bioethanol demand rises, biodiversity will fall in Cerrado, study says

Naira Hofmeister 4 May 2020

In famed Chico Mendes reserve, Brazil nut harvesters fight to save the forest

Débora Pinto 22 Apr 2020

Brazilian indigenous chiefs act to halt illegal logging in historical landmark area

Spensy Pimentel 16 Apr 2020

Amazonian leader takes Indigenous pepper to the Brazilian market and teaches how to live a good life

Débora Menezes 13 Apr 2020

Brazil sets record for highly hazardous pesticide consumption: Report

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2020

Amazon Tipping Point puts Brazil’s agribusiness, energy sector at risk: Top scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Feb 2020

Brazilian meat giant JBS expands its reach in China

Mongabay.com 20 Feb 2020

Making a thriller out of Belo Monte hydro dam: Q&A with filmmaker Sabrina McCormick

Débora Pinto 18 Feb 2020

Bolsonaro sends Congress bill to open indigenous lands to mining, fossil fuels

Jan Rocha 7 Feb 2020

Escalating firestorms could turn Amazon from carbon sink to source: Study

Taran Volckhausen 6 Feb 2020

Use it, don’t lose it: Q&A with Amazon eco scientist Marcelino Guedes

Débora Pinto 29 Jan 2020

NGOs demand inquiry into Environment Minister aid to Amazon land grabbers

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jan 2020

Impending Amazon tipping point puts biome and world at risk, scientists warn

Shanna Hanbury 27 Jan 2020

Brazil’s Bolsonaro creates Amazon Council and Environmental Police force

Jan Rocha 24 Jan 2020

Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away: study

Claire Asher 23 Jan 2020

Belo Monte boondoggle: Brazil’s biggest, costliest dam may be unviable

Tiffany Higgins 17 Jan 2020

Conflict in the Chico Mendes Reserve threatens this pioneering Amazonian project

Naira Hofmeister 16 Jan 2020

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