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Beatriz Matos (left) and Alessandra Sampaio (right), widows of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips,

Dom Phillips & Bruno Pereira ‘would be killed again,’ Indigenous leader says

Karla Mendes 24 Oct 2025

An Indigenous women-led revolution fights fires in Brazil’s Cerrado

Mariana Rosetti, Paola Churchill 23 Oct 2025
The NS-42 drilling rig, already at the Morpho well, is set to begin drilling immediately. Image courtesy of Petrobras.

Environmental groups slam Amazon oil drilling approval ahead of COP30

Shanna Hanbury 21 Oct 2025

Negro River study finds genetic damage in fish after oil spill

Tiago da Mota e Silva 20 Oct 2025
Researcher measures fire behavior during the 2023 dry season in the Tapajós National Forest (PA). Image courtesy of Marizilda Cruppe/Rede Amazônia Sustentável.

Heat surges put preserved Amazon areas at high risk, study says

Giovana Girardi/Agência Pública 20 Oct 2025
A deforested area in Barrerias, in Bahia state.

Deforestation for soy continues in Brazilian Cerrado despite EUDR looming

Constance Malleret 17 Oct 2025
Juruá red howler monkeys. Image courtesy of Anamélia de Souza Jesus.

Microplastics found in the stomachs of Amazon tree-dwelling monkeys

Shanna Hanbury 15 Oct 2025

An invite to the tapir toilet buffet (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 15 Oct 2025
In February, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva praised planned investments by Vale during a public event in Pará state, urging the company to ensure dam safety. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Presidência da República.

Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas

André Schröder 14 Oct 2025
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

MPs across Latin America unite to stop fossil fuels in the Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 9 Oct 2025

Research aims to link Hansen’s disease & illegal armadillo hunting in Brazil

Adele Santelli 9 Oct 2025
A forest fire in August 2025 in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Amazon Rainforest hits record carbon emissions from 2024 forest fires

Shanna Hanbury 8 Oct 2025
One of Tanaru’s temporary homes. Image courtesy of Funai.

Brazil Supreme Court creates park to honor last man of the Tanaru people

Shanna Hanbury 8 Oct 2025
A harvester harvesting soy in Brazil.

Brazil soy deal that curbs Amazon deforestation to be suspended in 2026

Shanna Hanbury 6 Oct 2025
When art turns into a sustainable treasure

When art turns into a sustainable treasure

Julia Lima, Fellipe Abreu, Sibélia Zanon 1 Oct 2025
Camera trap images of the jaguar before and after the crossing. Image courtesy of Silveira et al., 2025 (CC BY 4.0).

Jaguar in Brazil swims 2.3 km in longest recorded distance for the species

Shanna Hanbury 1 Oct 2025
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Environment Minister Marina Silva attend the launch of a program to reduce deforestation and forest fires in the Amazon, in April 2024.

New deal pushes Amazon’s controversial ‘tipping point road’ ahead

Rafael Spuldar 29 Sep 2025
President Lula calls on world leaders to support the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) at upcoming COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to advance climate action and conserve tropical forests.

Brazil leads push for novel forest finance mechanism ahead of COP30 summit

Justin Catanoso 26 Sep 2025

How we probed a maze of websites to tally Brazilian government shark meat orders

Philip Jacobson, Kuang Keng Kuek Ser 26 Sep 2025
BR-364 paved the way for the widespread conversion of Amazon Rainforest in Rondônia into land for agriculture and cattle ranching. Image courtesy of Cleber Carvalho/Ministério dos Transportes.

Brazil’s first private Amazon road paves new trade route to China

André Schröder 25 Sep 2025
Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes receives the 2025 John B. Oakes award on Sept. 18. Image courtesy of Sirin Samman.

Oakes Award delivers top prize to Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2025
Marfrig’s bonds funded beef from illegally deforested areas in Brazil

Marfrig’s bonds funded beef from illegally deforested areas in Brazil

Bruna Bronoski, O Joio e o Trigo 23 Sep 2025
A blue shark (Prionace glauca).

Mongabay shark investigation cited in motion to ban Brazil fin exports

Mongabay.com 23 Sep 2025

As UN climate talks loom in Brazil, many would-be participants fear they can’t afford to attend

Associated Press 22 Sep 2025
Rainforest in the Western Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Setting the record straight on Jurisdictional REDD+: The case of Brazil

Luiza Muccillo, Daniel Nepstad, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, Monica de los Rios, Thuanny Vieira 21 Sep 2025

The mire of Brazil’s BR-319 highway: Deforestation, development, and the banality of evil (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 19 Sep 2025
Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo with elders and community leaders.

Protecting Indigenous Amazon lands may also protect public health, study says

Constance Malleret 19 Sep 2025
Cattle ranching

The formula that reduced deforestation in Brazil in the 21st century

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Sep 2025

Palm Oil War

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2025
Seen through Santarém’s fish auction: ocean-faring vessel being loaded at the Cargill soy terminal.

An ancient Indigenous civilization endures beneath an Amazon urban soy hub

Peter Speetjens 16 Sep 2025
Blue shark (Prionace glauca), Faial-Pico Channel, Azores Islands, Portugal

Brazil weighs new measures to manage shark trade, fishing

Karla Mendes 15 Sep 2025

The Great Insect Crisis

Jeremy Hance 15 Sep 2025

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