Brazil News

RSS
3986 stories

Local people provide wildlife and forest data in park plagued by conflict

Christina Pham 24 Jun 2013

Bird extravaganza: scientists discover 15 new species of birds in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2013

11,000 barrels of oil spill into the Coca River in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2013

Brazil may lift ban on Amazon ethanol expansion

Mongabay.com 9 Jun 2013

Brazil’s GHG emissions fall 39% since 2005, now 10% below 1990 levels

Rhett A. Butler 6 Jun 2013

Brazil touts progress in reducing deforestation, but fails to note recent jump in clearing

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2013

Loss of big fruit-eating birds impacting trees in endangered rainforests

Mongabay.com 31 May 2013

Indigenous carbon conservation project gets verification, will start generating credits

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 May 2013

Two new arachnids discovered in Brazilian caves (photos)

Jeremy Hance 29 May 2013

India’s hornbill conservator is awarded the ‘Green Oscar’

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 23 May 2013

The Lions of India

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 22 May 2013

World’s largest tropical park may have protected status revoked

Mongabay.com 21 May 2013

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon pacing 88% higher than last year’s rate

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 May 2013

Amazon’s flood/drought cycle becoming more extreme, less predictable

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 May 2013

Deforestation will undercut effectiveness of rainforest dams

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 May 2013

Continued deforestation in the Amazon may kill Brazil’s agricultural growth

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 May 2013

Brazil’s satellite monitoring reduced Amazon deforestation by 60,000 sq km in 5 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 May 2013

Debate heats up over California’s plan to reduce emissions via rainforest protection

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 May 2013

Unconventional swine: how invasive pigs are helping preserve biodiversity in the Pantanal

Erica Santana 6 May 2013

Tribesmen launch ‘occupy’ protest at dam site in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 3 May 2013

Is it possible to reduce the impact of oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 May 2013

Sugarcane production impacting local climate in Brazil

Thomas Handley 1 May 2013

Indigenous tribes say effects of climate change already felt in Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Apr 2013

The shady business of online wildlife trade

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 30 Apr 2013

Rivers or grave yards? The woes of the Indian gharial and Gangetic dolphin in the Yamuna River

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 30 Apr 2013

What if companies actually had to compensate society for environmental destruction?

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

Featured documentary: Damocracy, highlighting the battles over the Belo Monte and Ilisu dams

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

Amazon: the world’s greatest rainforest or internet giant?

Jonathan Watts 25 Apr 2013

Frequent understory fires change rainforest community composition

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2013

Burned rainforest vulnerable to grass invasion

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Apr 2013

Brazil’s success in reducing deforestation will be hard to replicate

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2013

Brazil threatens $282m in fines for beef linked to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2013

you're currently offline