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Deal ends environmental agents’ strike in Brazil, but grievances fester

Forest degradation releases 5 times more Amazon carbon than deforestation: Study

Amazon Fraud 101: How timber credits mask illegal logging in Brazil

Expanding the colonization of the Brazilian Amazon through gold mining

Hydropower plants disrupt fishers’ lives in Amazon’s most biodiverse river basin

Gold mining in the Amazon has doubled in area since 2018, AI tool shows

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

Report reveals widespread use of smuggled mercury in Amazon gold mining

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

Brasil, Venezuela and Peru: the geography of industrial metals

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

Organized crime brings renewed threats to Yanomami in Brazil

Environmental agents intensify strike amid record fires in Brazil

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

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

The most prominent mining companies in the Pan Amazon – a review

Revealed: Illegal cattle ranching booms in Arariboia territory during deadly year for Indigenous Guajajara

Fraud and corruption drive illegal wildlife trade in the Amazon

The harsh, dangerous gig of seizing thousands of illegal cattle in the Amazon

Verra suspends carbon credit projects following police raid in Brazil

2 years after Bruno & Dom’s murders, Amazon region still rife with gangs

Brazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay

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

In Amazon’s tri-border Javari region, teens fall prey to drug gangs’ lure

Global markets and their effects on resource exploitation in the Pan Amazon

Top brands buy Amazon carbon credits from suspected timber laundering scam

Bird populations are mysteriously declining at an Amazon park in Ecuador & beyond

Extractive industries look at degraded land to avoid further deforestation in the Pan Amazon

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

New ban threatens traditional fishers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state

State management and regulation of extractive industries in the Pan Amazon

Goldman Prize honors Brazilian investigation linking JBS & deforestation

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