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Cattle raising in recently destroyed forestland in the municipality Aripuanã, in Mato Grosso state.

Amazon recovery offers hope of big rewards but poses equally big challenges

Carla Ruas 31 Oct 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Global markets for soybean and corn crops

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2023
pantanal fire

Jaguar haven in Brazil’s Pantanal burns amid ‘new normal’ of wildfires

Sarah Brown 30 Oct 2023

Intensive agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Soy, maize and other field crops

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Oct 2023

Livestock farming in the Andean Amazon and the rest of the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2023

People and nature suffer as historic drought fuels calamitous Amazon fires

André Schröder 24 Oct 2023

Lula partially blocks anti-Indigenous land rights bill, but trouble isn’t over

Sarah Brown 24 Oct 2023

New satellite readings show full extent of mining in the Amazon Rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 24 Oct 2023

Indigenous Suruí turn invaders’ crop into high-quality Amazonian coffee

Patricia Moll 24 Oct 2023

National versus global markets – beef in the Brazilian Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Oct 2023

Indigenous seed collectors grow a network of restoration across Brazil

Kevin Damasio 18 Oct 2023
Kuikuro men playing flutes.

The Amazon’s archaeology of hope: Q&A with anthropologist Michael Heckenberger

Peter Speetjens 18 Oct 2023

Industrial infrastructure in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Oct 2023

São Paulo nurseries bring the city’s rare and forgotten trees back to life

Sibélia Zanon 17 Oct 2023

Brazil’s Indigenous communities turn to native beekeeping to recover nature

Elizabeth Oliveira 16 Oct 2023
Pink river dolphins.

Fishing ban extension raises hopes for iconic Amazon pink river dolphin

Pérola de Farias Pedro 16 Oct 2023
This Planet satellite image shows how extreme drought in the Amazon has reduced the Rio Negro to a trickle. Image Ⓒ 2023 Planet Labs PBC

Despite severe drought, Amazon deforestation continues to slow

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Oct 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Beef production models

Timothy J. Killeen 11 Oct 2023

Brazil strikes intruders of Amazon’s most deforested Indigenous land

Sarah Brown 11 Oct 2023

How climate change could jeopardize Brazilian coffee

Rachel Brabbins 11 Oct 2023

Agriculture: profitability determines land use | Chapter 3 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 10 Oct 2023

99% of Caatinga biome could lose plant species due to climate change: Study

Evanildo da Silveira 6 Oct 2023

Sustainable infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: In search of an oxymoron

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Oct 2023

Brazil’s Indigenous women march again for the rights of their people and lives

Inaê Guion 5 Oct 2023

Investing in the Pan Amazon: How China’s investment operates

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Oct 2023
Ismael Nobre

Cacao and cupuaçu emerge as Amazon’s bioeconomy showcases

Sarah Brown 4 Oct 2023

Amazon drought cuts river traffic, leaves communities without water and supplies

André Schröder 3 Oct 2023
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon

Sarah Brown 27 Sep 2023

Infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: Public-private partnerships

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Sep 2023

From Orinoco to Amazon, Indigenous Warao struggle in search of refuge

João Paulo Guimarães 27 Sep 2023

Infrastructure in the Pan Amazon – Finance: What is new and what is not

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Sep 2023

How Canada’s growing presence in Latin America is hurting the environment

Maxwell Radwin 22 Sep 2023

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