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As blazes on embargoed Amazon land surge, links to meat industry emerge

Andrew Wasley, Elisângela Mendonça 30 Jul 2021
Prolonged dry conditions have caused the worst drought in central and southern Brazil in almost a century. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on NASA's Landsat 8 captured an image of Lago das Brisas on the Paranaíba River on June 17, 2021.

Lessons from Brazil’s São Paulo droughts (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 30 Jul 2021

Amazon and Cerrado deforestation, warming spark record drought in urban Brazil

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 22 Jul 2021

Planned Brazil-Peru highway threatens one of Earth’s most biodiverse places

Fabiano Maisonnave 22 Jul 2021

Protected areas keep adjacent lands safe, but face losing their own protection

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2021

Brazil government faces heat over plan that could underreport forest fires

Juliana Ennes 19 Jul 2021

Brazil prosecutors seek ban on all gold mining in hard-hit Amazonian region

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Jul 2021

Killings, invasions escalate in fight for land in Brazil’s Maranhão state

Juliana Ennes 15 Jul 2021
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Brazil’s Amazon is now a carbon source, unprecedented study reveals

Liz Kimbrough 14 Jul 2021

Deforestation soars 40% in Xingu River Basin in Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 2 Jul 2021

Fire season intensifies in the Brazilian Amazon, feeding off deforestation

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2021

Beef industry causes deforestation in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park

Tatiana Pardo Ibarra 29 Jun 2021

In Colombia, end of war meant start of runaway deforestation, study finds

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 25 Jun 2021

Timber troubles fell Ricardo Salles, Brazil’s environment minister

Juliana Ennes 24 Jun 2021

Exhibition showcases Claudia Andujar’s half-century fight for the Yanomami

Sue Branford 24 Jun 2021

Under assault at home, Indigenous leaders get a violent welcome in Brasília

Fernanda Wenzel 24 Jun 2021

With Indigenous rights at stake in Brasília, a territory is attacked in Paraty

Ana Ionova 18 Jun 2021

Bigger is badder when it comes to climate impact of farms in the Amazon

Claire Asher 17 Jun 2021

Illegal miners block Indigenous leaders headed to protests in Brazil’s capital

Ana Ionova 14 Jun 2021

What’s the cost of illegal mining in Brazil’s Amazon? A new tool calculates it

Shanna Hanbury 11 Jun 2021
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

New areas of primary forest cleared in Brazil’s ‘lawless’ Lábrea

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jun 2021

Study shows it took the Amazon as we know it over 6 million years to form

Claire Asher 7 Jun 2021
Waimiri Atroari Indigenous people in Brazilian Amazon

World’s richest tin mine pollutes rivers serving Amazon Indigenous villages

Maurício Angelo 4 Jun 2021

Brazil’s environment minister faces second probe linked to illegal timber

Shanna Hanbury 4 Jun 2021
Live hotspots in areas with Prodes 2019 and Deter warnings, in Colniza, Mato Grosso state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

The Brazilian Amazon is burning, again

Liz Kimbrough 3 Jun 2021

Illegal miners fire shots, burn homes in Munduruku Indigenous Reserve

Ana Ionova 28 May 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 25 May 2021

Brazil court orders illegal miners booted from Yanomami Indigenous Reserve

Shanna Hanbury 21 May 2021
Banner image of the Marauiá mountain range in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, in the state of Amazonas. Image by Sebastião Salgado

‘Amazônia must live on’: Photographer Sebastião Salgado returns home with his new book

Peter Speetjens 20 May 2021

Brazil’s environment minister investigated for alleged illegal timber sales

Mongabay.com 19 May 2021

After gold miners shoot Yanomani people, Brazil cuts environmental regulation further

Mongabay.com 13 May 2021
Burning forest in Rondonia in 2020. Photo credit: Fabio Nascimento

Amazon deforestation jumps sharply in April

Mongabay.com 8 May 2021

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