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Scientists measure Amazon drought and deforestation feedback loop: Study

Shanna Hanbury 21 Jul 2020

World’s biggest meatpacker JBS bought illegally grazed Amazon cattle: Report

Sam Cowie 20 Jul 2020

Where there’s cattle ranching and soybean farming, there’s fire, study finds

Marcelo Coppola 20 Jul 2020
Hotspot directly in the forest, next to a freshly deforested area, with Deter warning, in Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso state. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon fires rage despite official ban, Greenpeace photos reveal

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2020

Only a few ‘rotten apples’ causing most illegal Brazil deforestation: Study

Sarah Sax 17 Jul 2020

Brazil’s past finance ministers defend environment against Bolsonaro

Jenny Gonzales 16 Jul 2020

Corn growers in Brazil’s Cerrado reap a hostile climate of their own making

Maurício Angelo 15 Jul 2020

The woman building the forest corridors saving Brazil’s black lion tamarin

Sibélia Zanon 14 Jul 2020

Top Amazon deforestation satellite researcher sacked by Bolsonaro

Jenny Gonzales 14 Jul 2020

Life as an Amazon activist: ‘I don’t want to be the next Dorothy Stang’

Peter Speetjens 13 Jul 2020
Planet images showing fire on recently deforested near Itaúba in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil on June 29, 2020.

Deforestation rate climbs higher as Amazon moves into the burning season

Mongabay.com 10 Jul 2020

‘Unacceptably high’ risk of tailings dam failure in Canadian miner’s Amazon project

Maurício Angelo 10 Jul 2020

Brazilian meatpacker expands with World Bank funding but fails to reduce impacts in the Amazon

Naira Hofmeister 9 Jul 2020

Traditional villages dread living in shadow of Amazon tailings dams

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 9 Jul 2020

Prosecutors target Brazil’s environment minister over dismantling of protections

Suzana Camargo 8 Jul 2020
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazil bows to pressure from business, decrees 120-day Amazon fire ban

Jenny Gonzales 8 Jul 2020

Brazilian court orders 20,000 gold miners removed from Yanomami Park

Sue Branford 7 Jul 2020

World’s biggest trade deal in trouble over EU anger at Brazil deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 6 Jul 2020

Discovery of fish never recorded in the Amazon shows richness of Brazil’s Calha Norte

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Jul 2020
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

COVID-19 lockdown precipitates deforestation across Asia and South America

James Fair 3 Jul 2020

Brazil could dynamite Amazon dolphin, turtle habitat for industrial waterway

Tiffany Higgins 2 Jul 2020

Gold priced at $1,700 per ounce brings new gold rush to Brazilian Amazon

Fábio Nascimento (photos) and Gustavo Faleiros (text) 1 Jul 2020

Brazil’s indigenous hit especially hard by COVID-19: why so vulnerable?

Sue Branford 25 Jun 2020

World’s top tapir expert prepares for unprecedented Amazon mission

Naira Hofmeister 24 Jun 2020

‘Betting on impunity’: Brazilian Amazon under attack despite logging crackdown

Ana Ionova 23 Jun 2020

Illegal farms on indigenous lands get whitewashed under Bolsonaro administration

Bruno Fonseca and Rafael Oliveira from Agência Pública 23 Jun 2020

China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation, climate change: Study

Chris Arsenault 23 Jun 2020
Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

World Rainforest Day: The world’s great rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2020

COVID-19 and rainforest fires set up potential public health crisis

John Cannon 18 Jun 2020

Amazon river dolphin risks extinction if Brazil moratorium not renewed

Peter Yeung 16 Jun 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

14 straight months of rising Amazon deforestation in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jun 2020

Amazon poor go hungry as Brazil slashes social safety net, cuts forests: Study

Shanna Hanbury 11 Jun 2020

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