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Why is Brazil regressing in its fight against deforestation?

Paulo Barreto 12 Aug 2016

Promised US$1 billion in Belo Monte dam compensation largely unpaid?

Carolina Torres 12 Aug 2016
A mural of murdered activists Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo by disoniador via Pixabay.

In Latin America, environmentalists are an endangered species

Lindsay Fendt 11 Aug 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Using Big Data to combat the illegal timber trade in Brazil

Mike Gaworecki 10 Aug 2016
Etnias, a 620-foot long mural in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, representing indigenous people from five continents by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra. The mural was commissioned for the Olympics. Photo by Agência Brasil Fotografias.

Olympics to begin amid rising violence against Brazil’s indigenous people

Sandra Cuffe 4 Aug 2016
Google Earth image showing the site for the São Luiz do Tapajós dam.

Environmental licence for São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam denied

Sue Branford 4 Aug 2016

Tapajós dams may bring fish kills, species loss, mercury contamination

Tatiana Farah, from Repórter Brasil 2 Aug 2016

Deficient water systems, poor sanitation driving Zika in Brazil

Zoe Sullivan 29 Jul 2016

Rio Olympic organizers fail to meet all environmental goals

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jul 2016

Samarco chief faces criminal investigation over collapsed Brazil dam

Zoe Sullivan 27 Jul 2016

On eve of Olympics, Amazon deforestation surges in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jul 2016

NASA images show the Amazon could be facing an intense wildfire season this year

Mike Gaworecki 15 Jul 2016

Scientists compile list of all known Amazon tree species, say it could take three centuries to find the rest

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jul 2016

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Sue Branford 13 Jul 2016

Even reduced-impact logging in the Amazon may be unsustainable

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2016

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Claire Salisbury 12 Jul 2016

Pre-Columbian Amazon settlement primarily ate fish — more sustainable?

Claire Salisbury 8 Jul 2016

Illegal gold mining causing mercury contamination in indigenous groups

Carolina Torres 7 Jul 2016

Small time land speculators profit in advance of Amazon dams

Tatiana Farah, from Repórter Brasil 5 Jul 2016

Forest degradation in Brazil can have just as drastic an impact on biodiversity as deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jun 2016

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

Claire Salisbury 21 Jun 2016

The prosecutor who lassoed deforestation

Eduardo Pegurier 15 Jun 2016

“Species X:” The blue-eyed dove rediscovered in a global deforestation hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 9 Jun 2016

Is Brazil’s threatened bird situation Latin America’s future?

Bennett Hennessey 8 Jun 2016

Rio Doce grassroots response arises out of Fundão mining disaster

Zoe Sullivan 8 Jun 2016

Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land

Sue Branford 6 Jun 2016

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Claire Salisbury 6 Jun 2016
Greenpeace protesting against a company's palm oil policy. Courtesy of Greenpeace

10 reasons to be optimistic for forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2016

1.6 million Brazilians struggle to recover from Fundão toxic waste spill

Zoe Sullivan 3 Jun 2016

New Rio Olympic golf course harmed environment, say critics

(Paloma Savedra contributed to this story), Carolina Torres 31 May 2016

Zika: from obscure virus to global health emergency

Jenny Gonzales 25 May 2016
The Critically Endangered Blue-eyed Ground-dove © Rafael Bessa

First-ever photos of long-lost blue-eyed bird from Brazil

Mongabay.com 24 May 2016

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