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Soy plantations amid savanna vegetation in Maranhão state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil.

Amazon deforestation declines as Brazil reduces forest loss nationwide

Shanna Hanbury 12 Jun 2026

Cerrado’s hidden carbon highlights gaps in Brazil’s conservation policy

Daniel Shailer 7 May 2026
The city of Porto Alegre is flooded after heavy rain in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil is both the world’s environmental treasure and its most exposed victim (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Igor Oliveira 16 Mar 2026
The Cerrado in Correntina, Bahia. Image courtesy of Thomas Bauer / Earthsight.

The Cerrado is threatened but crucial for Brazil’s biodiversity & water security (commentary)

Cássio Cardoso Pereira, Walisson Kenedy-Siqueira, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Rodolfo Salm, Philip M. Fearnside 9 Mar 2026
Representatives from AL-INVEST Verde visit coffee plantations in Minas Gerais.

In Brazil, a free platform uses government data to track EUDR compliance

Constance Malleret 25 Feb 2026

The cost of compliance with the EUDR will limit its impact on reducing deforestation (commentary)

Bjørn Rask Thomsen, Daniel Nepstad 23 Feb 2026

Researchers eye jaguar conservation wins under Brazil Indigenous stewardship project

James Hall, Karla Mendes 18 Feb 2026
Tapir in Brazil. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Brazil sets out its strategy for nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jan 2026

Photos: Top new species from 2025

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2025
A soy plantation borders native Cerrado vegetation, highlighting pressures on Brazil’s ecosystems and the need for community-led bioeconomy alternatives.

New financial tools boost traditional bioeconomy projects in the Amazon

Sarah Brown 8 Dec 2025

Soy giants quietly prepare for EU deforestation law; impacts still uncertain

Marina Martinez 12 Nov 2025

Chilean pulp giant Arauco’s history of pollution trails it to Brazil biodiversity site

Tainah Ramos 11 Nov 2025

An Indigenous women-led revolution fights fires in Brazil’s Cerrado

Mariana Rosetti, Paola Churchill 23 Oct 2025
A deforested area in Barrerias, in Bahia state.

Deforestation for soy continues in Brazilian Cerrado despite EUDR looming

Constance Malleret 17 Oct 2025
Camera trap images of the jaguar before and after the crossing. Image courtesy of Silveira et al., 2025 (CC BY 4.0).

Jaguar in Brazil swims 2.3 km in longest recorded distance for the species

Shanna Hanbury 1 Oct 2025
A cocoa pod opened by hand. Exclusion of smallholder farmers from markets, a potential consequence of the EUDR, could result in loss of income leading to environmental harms but also exacerbate existing problems including child labor on cocoa farms. “These risks are known,” says Rainforest Alliance’s Fanny Gauttier. “That's something that we have highlighted many times.”

EUDR implementation comes laden with potential unintended consequences

Sean Mowbray 4 Sep 2025
Deforestation for oil palm plantation in Borneo, Indonesia.

Reversing deforestation relies on resource ownership (commentary)

Douglas Southgate, Brent Sohngen 5 Aug 2025
Aerial view of eucalyptus logs. Image courtesy of Tamás Bodolay/Repórter Brasil.

Eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholders

Shanna Hanbury 6 Jun 2025

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route

André Schröder 2 Jun 2025
Aftermath of the Mariana Dam collapse in Minas Gerais.

Report urges stricter mining standards to manage climate and social impacts

Aimee Gabay 9 May 2025

‘Puma detectives’ highlight wildlife where Brazil’s Cerrado meets the Atlantic Forest

Letícia Klein 5 May 2025
Scientists describe a new parrot snake species from the Brazilian Cerrado. Image courtesy of Diego Santana.

New species of parrot snake described in Brazil’s threatened Cerrado

Shanna Hanbury 6 Mar 2025

A cattle ranch is the unlikely scene for saving a fox found only in Brazil

Letícia Klein 5 Feb 2025

In Brazil’s ‘water tank’, communities resist mining to preserve their water and livelihoods

Beatriz Miranda, Íria Borges 30 Nov 2024

Wildfires burn record 97% of key biodiversity area in Brazil’s Cerrado

Shanna Hanbury 11 Nov 2024

Brazil renews plan to restore degraded land half the size of the UK

Shanna Hanbury 7 Nov 2024
Road in Barreiras, in western Bahia: on one side the Cerrado, on the other monoculture. Photo courtesy of Macaca Filmes.

Study warns that loosened legislation is driving deforestation in Bahia’s Cerrado

Elizabeth Oliveira 4 Nov 2024
Cattle herds in the Amazon and Cerrado tend to have few head of cattle per hectare. Restoring pastures can increase the number of cattle in the same amount of space, which researchers say could reduce the need for deforestation.

NGOs ask to include Brazilian Cerrado in the EUDR at next review

Aimee Gabay 29 Oct 2024

Brazil’s native seed collector networks drive wider social change, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 29 Oct 2024

UK & Dutch banks invest $55 million in controversial Cerrado tree farms

Shanna Hanbury 2 Oct 2024

Meta to buy 3.9 million carbon credits from controversial tree plantations

Shanna Hanbury 25 Sep 2024

Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024

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