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New algorithm looks at how Amazon vegetation will behave after climate change

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 29 Nov 2023

Quilombola communities take iron mine to U.K. court, alleging decade of damages

Sarah Brown 28 Nov 2023

Cultivation and processing of Amazonian coffees

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Nov 2023
Jesi Ferreira de Castro, coordinator of the São Francisco community

Paradise lost? Brazil’s biggest bauxite mining firm denies riverine rights

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 27 Nov 2023
Jesi Ferreira de Castro, coordinator of the São Francisco community

Brazil’s biggest bauxite mining firm denies riverine rights

Jesi Ferreira, Sue Branford, Thais Borges 27 Nov 2023

In Brazil’s Amazon, a clandestine road threatens a pristine reserve

Ana Ionova 24 Nov 2023

Jane Goodall and Dax Dasilva partner with Amazon Indigenous youth for new Roots & Shoots program

Liz Kimbrough 24 Nov 2023

Coffee and cacao in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Nov 2023

Glyphosate leaves its mark even in protected areas of Brazil’s Cerrado

Adriana Amâncio 22 Nov 2023
The search for the Kanoê brothers produced impressive footage

The coveted legacy of the ‘Man of the Hole’ and his cultivated Amazon forest

Fabio Zuker 22 Nov 2023

Biofuels in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Nov 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Mongabay CEO discusses slowdown in Amazon loss and other positive news

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Nov 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Jurisdictional REDD+ ready to fund forest-positive, socially-inclusive development in the Amazon and beyond (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 20 Nov 2023

Study shows dire outlook for amphibians: 40% threatened with extinction

Suzana Camargo 20 Nov 2023
Indigenous forest guardians Laércio Guajajara and Paulo Paulino Guajajara.

End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil’s Guajajara

Karla Mendes 20 Nov 2023
Laércio Guajajara.

The trial that could change the fate of the Guajajara

Ingrid Barros, Karla Mendes 20 Nov 2023
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

French banks accused of money laundering linked to Amazon deforestation

Dimitri Selibas 16 Nov 2023

Can blockchain clean up the gold industry in Brazil and across the globe?

Charlie Espinosa, Charles Lyons 14 Nov 2023

Shell affiliate accused of violating Indigenous rights in carbon credit contracts

Fábio Bispo 14 Nov 2023

What does oil palm require to reach international markets?

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Nov 2023
Oil palm plantation workers wait for the truck to take them to work.

Palm oil cultivation in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Nov 2023

The rare Amazonian fish that scientists seek to better study

Adele Santelli, Gustavo Fonseca 12 Nov 2023
Planet satellite image of the Anavilhanas Archipelago in the Rio Negro in Brazil in October 2023 during a severe drought. Courtesy of Planet.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon falls 22% in 2023

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Nov 2023
Brazilian environment ministry's IBAMA carryinh out an operation to combat the illegal use of pesticides in western Bahia's Cerrado in 2018.

Study links pesticides to child cancer deaths in Brazilian Amazon & Cerrado

Shi En Kim 10 Nov 2023

Amazon deforestation has a regional, not just local impact: study

Maxwell Radwin 10 Nov 2023

‘We just want to be left in peace’: In Brazil’s Amazon, soy ambitions loom over Indigenous land

Ana Ionova 9 Nov 2023
Oil palm fruit collection in a plantation.

Oil palm in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan-Amazon: Swine and poultry – Adding value to farm production

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Nov 2023
A biodiversity index created by Bioverse using machine learning to detect species and then spatially categorize them. Image courtesy of Bioverse.

Can digital twins help save the Amazon? (commentary)

Carlo Ratti, Robert Muggah 2 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Industrial infrastructure for grains and cereals

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Nov 2023

Amazon drought: Much damage still to come (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Rosimeire Araújo Silva 1 Nov 2023

In Venezuela, a mysterious fire sparks concerns for rare mountain wildlife

Maxwell Radwin 31 Oct 2023

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