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REDD+ carbon and deforestation cuts in Amazon overestimated: Study

Peter Yeung 2 Nov 2020

New Latin American treaty could help protect women conservation leaders — and all environment defenders

Mike Gaworecki 28 Oct 2020
An uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon photographed in . © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI.

2020 fires endangering uncontacted Amazon Indigenous groups

Liz Kimbrough 28 Oct 2020

Efforts to tackle shark fin trade need to focus closer to shore, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Oct 2020
Victoria amazonica. © Sir Ghillean Prance

Amazon botanist Sir Ghillean Prance: ‘The environmental crisis is a moral one’

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Oct 2020

Long entrenched Brazilian military mindset is key to Amazon policy: Expert

Peter Speetjens 26 Oct 2020

Marmosets trafficked as pets now threaten native species in Atlantic forest

Sibélia Zanon 26 Oct 2020

Atlantic trends can predict Amazon drought 18 months away, study finds

Jennifer Ann Thomas 23 Oct 2020

‘Digital land grab’ deprives traditional LatAm peoples of ancestral lands: Report

Sue Branford 21 Oct 2020

At-risk Cerrado mammals need fully-protected parks to survive: Researchers

Sharon Guynup 20 Oct 2020

Fire burns Pantanal’s upland heart and threatens nature’s fragile balance

Fernanda Wenzel 19 Oct 2020

Harvard fund evades justice in land-grabbing case over Cerrado farm

Caio de Freitas Paes 15 Oct 2020

For Amazon’s harpy eagle, nesting trees are also coveted for timber

Richard Kemeny 13 Oct 2020
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Brazil reports lower deforestation, higher fires in September

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

As Brazil burns, Indigenous fire brigades face an uncertain future

Maurício Angelo 9 Oct 2020

In a drier Amazon, small farmers and researchers work together to reduce fire damage

Letícia Klein, Thiago Medaglia 8 Oct 2020

The murky process of licensing Amazonian meat plants

Flávia Milhorance / Diálogo Chino 8 Oct 2020

Research links industrial pig farming and virus outbreaks

Sibélia Zanon 8 Oct 2020

Fires raze nearly half of Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Pantanal

Bianca Muniz, Bruno Fonseca, Raphaela Ribeiro from Agência Pública 6 Oct 2020

Brazilian frog believed ‘extinct’ for 50+ years, found with eDNA testing

Peter Yeung 6 Oct 2020

Stock indices let Brazil meatpackers shed ties to deforestation, draw investors

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 6 Oct 2020

Forest degradation outpaces deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Study

Claire Asher 5 Oct 2020

Alcoa vs. the Amazon: How the ribeirinhos won their collective land rights

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 2 Oct 2020

Brazilian dry forests are chronically degraded even in non-deforested areas

Meghie Rodrigues 1 Oct 2020

Could disruptions in meat supply relieve pressure on the Amazon? (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 30 Sep 2020

Brazil moves toward transfer of deforestation and fire monitoring to military

Jenny Gonzales 29 Sep 2020
Xikrin Kayapó family. Photo by John Hemming.

Exploring the history of the Amazon and its peoples: an interview with John Hemming

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Sep 2020
Tree planting effort in India. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

New study shows where we should grow more forest to fight climate change

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Sep 2020
A Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus) spends time in the moist Amazon understory foraging. Photo by Philip Stouffer.

As the Amazon burns, what happens to its biodiversity?

Liz Kimbrough 24 Sep 2020

BlackRock’s $400m stake in Amazon meatpackers defies sustainability cred

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 24 Sep 2020

For the Pantanal’s jaguars, fires bring ‘death by a thousand needle wounds’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Sep 2020

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