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Brazil’s Atlantic Forest gets a chance at a fresh start through restoration

Taís Seibt, Duda Menegassi 7 Mar 2022

In destroying the Amazon, big agribusiness is torching its own viability

Sarah Brown 7 Mar 2022

From humble roots, a restoration plan in Brazil aims for 1.5m hectares of forest

Sibélia Zanon 4 Mar 2022

A more potent CO2 sink than the Amazon, Brazil’s mangroves remain overlooked

Suzana Camargo 3 Mar 2022

Chasing Deforestation: Reporter Ana Ionova finds a water buffalo ‘frenzy’ in Autazes

Romina Castagnino 2 Mar 2022

Brazil’s agroforestry farmers report many benefits, but challenges remain

Claire Asher 2 Mar 2022

In Brazil, evicted Indigenous residents fight to reclaim their community

Ana Ionova 1 Mar 2022

Pay or punish? Study looks at how to engage with farmers deforesting the Cerrado

Sarah Sax 25 Feb 2022

Call for COVID rules that reduced infections in gorilla parks to remain

Ryan Truscott 24 Feb 2022
Aerial view of Amazon rainforest landscape scarred by open pit gold mines

Brazil’s Amazon gold mining to be “stimulated” by Bolsonaro’s decree (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Feb 2022

From Wall Street to the Amazon: Big capital funds mining-driven deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 22 Feb 2022

Brazil agrochemical bill nears passage in Bolsonaro’s ‘agenda of death’

Sarah Brown 18 Feb 2022

Study suggests tropical forests can regenerate naturally — if we let them

Luís Patriani 16 Feb 2022

John Deere and Brazilian bank team up to equip farmers deforesting the Amazon

Andressa Santa Cruz, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 14 Feb 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil

January deforestation in the Amazon highest in 14 years

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2022

Fears of oil spills as ExxonMobil seeks to drill at the mouth of a Brazil river

Mariama Correia, Agência Pública 10 Feb 2022

Amazon losing far more carbon from forest degradation than deforestation: Study

Graycen Wheeler 9 Feb 2022

Politicized Indigenous affairs agency puts Brazil’s uncontacted groups at risk

Shanna Hanbury 9 Feb 2022

Is a European proposal on imported deforestation too punitive? (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 9 Feb 2022

Preventing the next pandemic is vastly cheaper than reacting to it: Study

Sharon Guynup 4 Feb 2022
Mark Plotkin with an Embera shaman in the Darien on the Colombia-Panama. Photo credit: Amazon Conservation Team

Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin: Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jan 2022

Déjà vu for Indigenous villagers in Brazil as floods leave them homeless again

Sarah Brown 21 Jan 2022
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

Amazon to Alps: Swiss gold imports from Brazil tread a legal minefield

Fernanda Wenzel, Olivier Christe 21 Jan 2022
NASA Landsat satellite image showing the Amazonian region where the activity occurred, according to IBAMA.

Chemical defoliants sprayed on Amazon rainforest to facilitate deforestation in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 19 Jan 2022
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 Felipe Silva, Fellipe Abreu 4 Jan 2022

Rainforests in 2022: A look at the year ahead

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2022

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