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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

Five technologies help thwart illegal logging by tracing wood’s origin

Emily Kaldjian, Loretta Cheung, Ruth Nogueron 23 May 2016

Dams flood 36,000 hectares of Brazilian rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 May 2016
Red-eyed tree frog. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The top 10 most biodiverse countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2016

Proposed Amazon dam attracts illegal loggers, threatens local farmers

Tatiana Farah, from Repórter Brasil 19 May 2016

Conservation’s people problem

Jeremy Hance 17 May 2016

Tapajós dam puts newly discovered species, indigenous people at risk

Tatiana Farah, from Repórter Brasil 17 May 2016

Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation

Claire Salisbury 13 May 2016
Riparian forest and soy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Brazilian soy industry extends moratorium on deforestation indefinitely

Mongabay.com 9 May 2016

Brazil is scaling back its protected area network and the short-term effect on forests might surprise you

Mike Gaworecki 5 May 2016

Brazil’s Congress moves ahead to end nation’s environmental safeguards

Sue Branford 5 May 2016

How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals

Jeremy Hance 3 May 2016

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