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At-risk Cerrado mammals need fully-protected parks to survive: Researchers

Sharon Guynup 20 Oct 2020

Harvard fund evades justice in land-grabbing case over Cerrado farm

Caio de Freitas Paes 15 Oct 2020

In Brazil’s Bahia, peasant farmers and cowboys keep the Cerrado alive

Caio de Freitas Paes 15 Sep 2020
Giant Armadillo. Image courtesy of the Giant Armadillo Project.

In search of the ‘forest ghost,’ South America’s cryptic giant armadillo

Suzana Camargo 8 Sep 2020

For Brazil’s most trafficked parrot, the poaching is relentless

Dimas Marques 1 Sep 2020

Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse

Maurício Angelo 19 Aug 2020

Only a few ‘rotten apples’ causing most illegal Brazil deforestation: Study

Sarah Sax 17 Jul 2020

Brazil’s past finance ministers defend environment against Bolsonaro

Jenny Gonzales 16 Jul 2020

Corn growers in Brazil’s Cerrado reap a hostile climate of their own making

Maurício Angelo 15 Jul 2020

World’s top tapir expert prepares for unprecedented Amazon mission

Naira Hofmeister 24 Jun 2020

China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation, climate change: Study

Chris Arsenault 23 Jun 2020

Brazil’s native bees are vital for agriculture, but are being killed by it

Sibélia Zanon 1 Jun 2020
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

The mining map: Who’s eyeing the gold on Brazil’s indigenous lands?

Agência Pública, Anna Beatriz Anjos, Bruno Fonseca, Ciro Barros, José Cícero da Silva, Rafael Oliveira, Thiago Domenici 7 May 2020

As bioethanol demand rises, biodiversity will fall in Cerrado, study says

Naira Hofmeister 4 May 2020

‘We are invisible’: Brazilian Cerrado quilombos fight for land and lives

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 30 Apr 2020

Satellite data show Amazon rainforest likely drier, more fire-prone this year

Shanna Hanbury 23 Apr 2020

Tax exemptions on pesticides in Brazil add up to US$ 2.2 billion per year

Mariana Della Barba, Diego Junqueira, from Repórter Brasil, Pedro Grigori from Agência Pública 1 Apr 2020

Brazil sets record for highly hazardous pesticide consumption: Report

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2020

Painting with fire: Cerrado land managers learn from traditional peoples

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 3 Mar 2020
The village of Ypoi by Mídia Ninja.

A bloody January for Brazil’s indigenous Kaiowá spotlights persecution

Caio de Freitas Paes 2 Mar 2020

Amazon Tipping Point puts Brazil’s agribusiness, energy sector at risk: Top scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Feb 2020

Brazilian meat giant JBS expands its reach in China

Mongabay.com 20 Feb 2020

Study investigates impact of road deaths on giant anteater population in Cerrado

Clarissa Beretz 11 Feb 2020

Private firms will pay soy farmers not to deforest Brazil’s Cerrado

Sarah Sax 11 Feb 2020

Cerrado in crisis: One Brazilian farm family commits to sustainable soy

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 10 Feb 2020

Impending Amazon tipping point puts biome and world at risk, scientists warn

Shanna Hanbury 27 Jan 2020

Communities in Brazilian Cerrado besieged by global demand for soy

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 13 Jan 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

EU/Chinese soy consumption linked to species impacts in Brazilian Cerrado: study

Sarah Sax 24 Dec 2019

As pesticide approvals soar, Brazil’s tapirs, bees, other wildlife suffer

Jenny Gonzales 18 Dec 2019

Brazil investigates agribusiness bribes to judges for favorable land rulings

Maurício Angelo 27 Nov 2019

Amazon trees may absorb far less carbon than previously thought: study

Claire Asher 21 Nov 2019

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