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Gold mining in the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Brazil’s illegal gold rush is fueling corruption, violent crime and deforestation

Robert Muggah 14 Jan 2022

As its end looms, Cerrado tracker records 6-year deforestation high

Fernanda Wenzel 12 Jan 2022

Cattle boom in Brazil’s Acre spells doom for Amazon rainforest, activists warn

Sarah Brown 7 Jan 2022
Satellite image of forest islands in the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in the Brazilian Amazon. Image credit: Maxar Technologies with processing by Mongabay.

Tom Lovejoy’s enduring legacy to the planet

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2022

In the Brazilian Amazon, solar energy brings light — and new opportunities

Ana Ionova 4 Jan 2022

As temperatures rise, so does risk of kidney disease, study finds

Suzana Camargo 4 Jan 2022

Farmers in Brazil’s Cerrado cotton on to the benefits of agroecology

Luiz Fellipe Silva and Fellipe Abreu 4 Jan 2022

Rainforests in 2022: A look at the year ahead

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2022

More trees means healthier bees, new study on air pollution shows

Luís Patriani 3 Jan 2022

Small coffee farmers lay their chips on smart agriculture to overcome climate crisis in the Cerrado biome

Débora Pinto 29 Dec 2021

Mongabay’s 10 hardest-hitting investigations of 2021

Maxwell Radwin 29 Dec 2021
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021
An official from Operation Green Brazil surveys a deforested and burned landscape. Image by Ibama via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

‘Rampant forest destruction’ wracks reserve as cattle ranching advances in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2021
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

The year in rainforests 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2021
Photo credit: Bill Laurance

Tom Lovejoy, prominent conservation biologist, dies at 80

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Dec 2021

As the Amazon burns, its Indigenous inhabitants choke on the haze

Valéria Santana and Juliana Ennes 23 Dec 2021

Reclaiming tradition: Amazonian women ditch mining for biocosmetics

Carolina Pinheiro 23 Dec 2021

Slashed forest protections ignites land grabbing frenzy in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 22 Dec 2021

Global ayahuasca trend drives deforestation in Brazil’s Acre state

Matthew Meyer 22 Dec 2021

Global ecosystem restoration progress: How and who’s tracking it?

Mike Gaworecki 22 Dec 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

To end illegal deforestation, Brazil may legalize it entirely, experts warn

Meghie Rodrigues 20 Dec 2021

Meet the fishing jaguars that have made this patch of the Pantanal their own

Dimas Marques/Fauna News 20 Dec 2021

Wildlife death toll from 2020 Pantanal fires tops 17 million, study finds

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2021
Cattle in Brazil

European supermarkets say Brazilian beef is off the menu

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Dec 2021

Brazil’s Suzano boasts its pulpwood plantations are green; critics disagree

Sue Branford 15 Dec 2021

Barrage of droughts weakens Amazon’s capacity to bounce back, study finds

Elizabeth Oliveira 15 Dec 2021

Exports of threatened species’ timber boomed under Bolsonaro, probe finds

Ciro Barros/Agência Pública 14 Dec 2021

French deforestation database pressures Brazilian soy traders to clean up supply chain

Maxwell Radwin 14 Dec 2021
Tiger

Tigers, jaguars under threat from tropical hydropower projects: Study

Carolyn Cowan 9 Dec 2021

‘They will die’: Fears for the last Piripkura as Amazon invasion ramps up

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Dec 2021
Brazil nut collecting in the Zoró Indigenous Land, MT

For Indigenous Zoró, the Brazil nut is a weapon against deforestation

Isabel Harari, Jaqueline Deister 3 Dec 2021

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