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Could Brazil’s election decide the fate of the Amazon?

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022
Macaws fly over the rainforests of Peru.

Illegal logging and trade in fine wood threaten Wampis communities in the Peruvian Amazon

Enrique Vera 9 Sep 2022

Crimes against the Amazon reverberate across Brazil, analysis shows

Elizabeth Oliveira 31 Aug 2022
A turquoise tanager

Venezuelan Amazon deforestation expands due to lawlessness, mining, fires: Reports

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Aug 2022

Bolsonaro agenda gets a lift from dominance of ‘new right’ in Congress

Diego Junqueira, from Repórter Brasil, Gisele Lobato, Marina Rossi 29 Aug 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2022
Scientists and researchers from INPE gather outside the São José dos Campos office of INPE in protest

Brazil’s new deforestation data board sparks fear of censorship of forest loss, fires

Sarah Brown 22 Jul 2022
Franco Ivan Macedo Tafur, a member of the Amazon mangrove research team

First-of-its-kind freshwater mangroves discovered in Brazil’s Amazon Delta

Liz Kimbrough 20 Jul 2022
Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narvaez, Goldman Prize winners for South and Central America in 2022.

For Ecuador’s A’i Cofán leaders, Goldman Prize validates Indigenous struggle

Ana Cristina Alvarado, Diego Cazar Baquero 16 Jun 2022
A blue-grey tanager

Repeated fires are silencing the Amazon, says new acoustic monitoring study

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2022
A frog in Peruvian Amazon.

Caribbean incursion into Amazon sparked a flurry of life, with lessons for the future

Fernanda Wenzel 24 May 2022
A spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also known as the Andean bear.

Researchers compile largest-ever photo database of Amazon wildlife

Liz Kimbrough 20 May 2022
The Terra do Meio Ecological Station, near the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protected Area, is home to margays (Leopardus wiedii), small wild cats native to South and Central America. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2022

“Indigenous people are fighting to protect a natural equilibrium”: Q&A with Patricia Gualinga

Astrid Arellano 6 May 2022

A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters

Ronaldo Ribeiro | Letícia Klein | Kevin Damasio | Laura Kurtzberg (Ambiental Media) 5 May 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022

Freshwater planetary boundary “considerably” transgressed: New research

Petro Kotzé 27 Apr 2022
Achiote trees in a Kwicha community in Pastaza province

Ecuador’s Pastaza province, Indigenous groups collaborate on forest conservation

Dimitri Selibas 11 Apr 2022

2021 Amazon deforestation map shows devastating impact of ranching, agriculture

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2022

Indigenous communities in Ecuador struggle with the aftermath of another oil spill

Diego Cazar Baquero 18 Mar 2022

To fight invaders, Munduruku women wield drone cameras and cellphones

Joana Moncau, Elpida Nikou, from Repórter Brasil 15 Mar 2022

In Brazil, Indigenous Ka’apor take their territory’s defense into their own hands

Andrew Johnson 14 Mar 2022
The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Moore Foundation pledges extra $300m to boost conservation of Amazon

Laurel Sutherland 10 Mar 2022

Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon deforestation

Lucas Ferraz, Guilherme Henrique 8 Mar 2022

In Brazil, evicted Indigenous residents fight to reclaim their community

Ana Ionova 1 Mar 2022

Chocolate frog? New burrowing frog species unearthed in Amazon’s rare peatlands

Liz Kimbrough 28 Feb 2022

Amazon losing far more carbon from forest degradation than deforestation: Study

Graycen Wheeler 9 Feb 2022

Politicized Indigenous affairs agency puts Brazil’s uncontacted groups at risk

Shanna Hanbury 9 Feb 2022
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

Amazon to Alps: Swiss gold imports from Brazil tread a legal minefield

Fernanda Wenzel, Olivier Christe 21 Jan 2022
Indigenous protest

Mongabay’s Top 10 Indigenous News Stories of 2021

Latoya Abulu 30 Dec 2021

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