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Mass grave in Parque Taruma cemetery in Manuas, Brazil in 2020. Photo credit: AFP

Zero convictions as impunity blocks justice for victims of Brazil’s rural violence

Daniel Camargos, from Repórter Brasil 15 Feb 2021

Agroforestry-grown coffee gives Amazon farmers a sustainable alternative

Sibélia Zanon 11 Feb 2021

As the Amazon unravels into savanna, its wildlife will also suffer

Luís Patriani 10 Feb 2021
Manaus as seen from satellite. © Microsoft Zoom.

Brazil’s BR-319: Politicians capitalize on the Manaus oxygen crisis to promote a disastrous highway (Commentary)

Philip Fearnside, Maryane Andrade, Lucas Ferrante 7 Feb 2021

Investigation: Dutch, Japanese pension funds pay for Amazon deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 5 Feb 2021

A wet Amazon may be more resilient to a drying climate than thought: Study

Claire Asher 3 Feb 2021

Study reveals how species once extinct in the wild have bounced back

Suzana Camargo 3 Feb 2021
Construction of Belo Monte Dam, on the Xingu river, Belo Monte Site. Altamira, Pará, Brazil. Credit line: © Carol Quintanilha / Greenpeace

Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam: Greenwashing contested (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 1 Feb 2021

Brazil guts agencies, ‘sabotaging environmental protection’ in Amazon: Report

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 1 Feb 2021
Sunrise over the Amazon rainforest

Bipartisan group recommends how Joe Biden can help save the Amazon

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2021
An atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), at the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA).

European farmed salmon sector to use only deforestation-free Brazilian soy

Genevieve Belmaker 29 Jan 2021

Seven financial firms key to rooting out deforestation, report finds

John Cannon 29 Jan 2021

Lasers find forest gaps to aid tree mortality studies in Brazilian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jan 2021
Cesar, a Matses shaman. Photo courtesy of Acaté.

Investment in Indigenous peoples’ knowledge can drive their economic growth (commentary)

Tatiana Botelho 26 Jan 2021

Amazon is on the brink of turning into a carbon source, study warns

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2021

Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining

Sam Cowie 22 Jan 2021

In ‘dire’ plea, Brazil’s Amazonas state appeals for global COVID assistance

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 21 Jan 2021

Brazil’s collapsing health service, new COVID variant, raise Indigenous risk

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 20 Jan 2021
Gold mining is a major threat to the forests and biodiversity of the Peruvian Amazon, including protected areas. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Environmental assassinations bad for business, new research shows

Genevieve Belmaker 20 Jan 2021
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are the tropical forest storylines to watch in 2021?

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jan 2021

Patches of Amazon untouched by humans still feel impact of climate change

Dimas Marques 13 Jan 2021
Deforestation for cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

California-sized area of forest lost in just 14 years

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2021

Lack of protection leaves Spain-size swath of Brazilian Amazon up for grabs

Jenny Gonzales 8 Jan 2021
: Scarab beetles on little white flowers in the canopy. Image by Susan Kirmse (CC BY-ND).

Canopy beetles and flowering trees rely on each other in the Amazon, study

Liz Kimbrough 6 Jan 2021
Gentoo penguins watching an iceberg. Image credit: Mongabay

We’re approaching critical climate tipping points: Q&A with Tim Lenton

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Jan 2021
Rainforest mantis in Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jan 2021
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020

Weak policy oversight could be pushing Brazilian forests closer to a tipping point

Meghie Rodrigues 28 Dec 2020
Sea turtle in the Pacific.

Nature drone photos: 2020 highlights (Insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Dec 2020
Red passion vine flower in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Colombia’s forests lurch between deforestation and the hope for a sustainable future

Dimitri Selibas 24 Dec 2020

New innovations to clean up the impacts of mining

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2020

Traditional and Indigenous peoples ‘denounce’ planned Amazon railway

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 23 Dec 2020

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