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Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

10 ways conservation tech shifted into auto in 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Dec 2018

An expanding frontier: Top 10 global palm oil stories of 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Dec 2018

Brazil: Bolsonaro supporter works to imprison Dorothy Stang’s successor

Daniel Camargos, Roberto Cataldo — translator 28 Dec 2018

Adapt to a changing Amazon now, or pay far higher price later, experts say

Claire Asher 25 Dec 2018
Rainforest rainbow in Sabah. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

The 10 most intriguing forest stories of 2018

Genevieve Belmaker, Joseph Charpentier 25 Dec 2018

Ten years on, Amazon Fund receives applause, criticism, faces new tests

Fabíola Ortiz 21 Dec 2018

Illegal mining in the Amazon ‘not comparable to any other period of its history’

Kimberley Brown 20 Dec 2018

Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 20 Dec 2018

Amazon forests not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change: study

Claire Asher 19 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

Sue Branford; Thais Borges; and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2018

Purus-Madeira: Amazon parks and extraordinary biodiversity at risk now

Gustavo Faleiros; images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 17 Dec 2018

Deforestation in Brazil’s cerrado falls

Mongabay.com 16 Dec 2018

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Will they stay or will they go? Brazil’s threat to leave Paris

Justin Catanoso 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2018

COP24: Tropical deforestation risks undermining 1.5-degree warming limit

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2018

Brazilian regulators deny French oil giant Total license to drill near Amazon Reef

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2018

A monitoring network in the Amazon captures a flood of data

Elizabeth Oliveira 11 Dec 2018

Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding

Max Nathanson 10 Dec 2018

Tropical forest conservation in the Bolsonaro era (commentary)

Dan Nepstad, João Shimada, Oswaldo Carvalho Jr. 6 Dec 2018

Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 6 Dec 2018

Extreme floods on the rise in the Amazon: study

Claire Asher 5 Dec 2018

Top U.S. flooring retailer linked to Brazilian firm snagged in timber bust

John Cannon 4 Dec 2018

Santo Antônio mega-dam on Brazil’s Madeira River disrupts local lives

Sonya Cunningham 3 Dec 2018

Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end: experts

Claire Asher 29 Nov 2018

New research quantifies ecosystem services provided by Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2018
A Laysan Albatross chick rests on a small derelict fishing net. Photo courtesy of NOAA.

Catalyzing action on sea litter in Brazil and beyond

Mongabay.com 26 Nov 2018
Chocolate is wrapped in a cocoa tree leaf. Photo by Sarita Reed.

Smallholder farmers defy cocoa’s production model in Brazil

Sarita Reed, Vinícius Fontana 26 Nov 2018

Amazon deforestation at highest level in 10 years, says Brazil

Mongabay.com 24 Nov 2018

Tax havens and Brazilian Amazon deforestation linked: study

Giovanni Ortolani 21 Nov 2018

These 4,000-year-old termite mounds are visible from space and still in use

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2018

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