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Shade or sun? Forest structure affects tree responses to Amazon drought

Claire Asher 17 Apr 2019

Amazon could be biggest casualty of US-China Trade war, researchers warn

Sarah Sax 16 Apr 2019

New Amazonian species of short-tailed whip scorpion sheds light on ‘the mating march’

Mongabay.com 12 Apr 2019

Brazil soy trade linked to widespread deforestation, carbon emissions

Claire Asher 3 Apr 2019

Leading Amazon dam rights activist, spouse and friend murdered in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 27 Mar 2019

Brazil fails to give adequate public access to Amazon land title data, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2019

Madeira River dams may spell doom for Amazon’s marathon catfish: Studies

Text by Gustavo Faleiros and images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 25 Mar 2019
A juvenile Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in the Pantanal. Tapirs have been found to disperse seeds in disturbed Amazon forests. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tapirs could be key in helping degraded rainforests bounce back

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2019

Bolsonaro on the move: International meetings push agribusiness agenda

Jenny Gonzales 20 Mar 2019

Brazil’s key deforestation drivers: Pasture, cropland, land speculation

Alicia Prager 19 Mar 2019
Drone view of Chiquitano forest recently deforested on the edge of the Bolivian Amazon for soy production. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Investors warn soy giants of backlash over deforestation in South America

James Fair 18 Mar 2019

Brazil to open indigenous reserves to mining without indigenous consent

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 14 Mar 2019

Brazil to build long-resisted Amazon transmission line on indigenous land

Jan Rocha 13 Mar 2019

Combined effects of fire, fragmentation, and windstorms leave Amazonian trees particularly vulnerable

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2019
Camera trap image showing a jaguar on a road at San Miguelito. Courtesy of Duston Larsen.

Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Mar 2019

Saving the Cerrado: Six commodities traders to disclose supply chain data

Alicia Prager 7 Mar 2019

Scott Wallace on the importance of protecting uncontacted indigenous groups in the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 5 Mar 2019

The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans

Liz Kimbrough 5 Mar 2019

Brazil’s New Forest Code puts vast areas of protected Amazon forest at risk

Claire Asher 4 Mar 2019
The spider Pamphobeteus sp. (Theraphosidae) and Chiasmocleis royi. Photo by Emanuele Biggi.

Video: scientists capture giant spider eating an opossum

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2019

Brazil wants to legalize agribusiness leasing of indigenous lands

Jenny Gonzales 21 Feb 2019

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Jan Rocha 20 Feb 2019

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Feb 2019

10 reasons U.S. must hold Peru to trade deal and protect Amazon (commentary)

David Hill 15 Feb 2019

Invaded Uru-eu-wau-wau indigenous reserve awaits relief by Brazil’s new government

Gustavo Faleiros 14 Feb 2019

Amazon at risk: Brazil plans rapid road and rail infrastructure expansion

Sue Branford 12 Feb 2019

Six new catfish species, facial tentacles and all, described in Amazon

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2019

Ecuador’s indigenous Cofán hail court-ordered end to mining on their land

Antonio José Paz Cardona 11 Feb 2019

New appointments, new policies don’t bode well for Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 4 Feb 2019

Will President Bolsonaro withdraw Brazil from the Paris Agreement? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 31 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro government reveals plan to develop the ‘Unproductive Amazon’

Jan Rocha 28 Jan 2019

Latam Eco Review: Some whales may benefit from Japan’s whaling commission exit

Mongabay.com 26 Jan 2019

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