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Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Jan Rocha 20 Feb 2019

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Feb 2019

10 reasons U.S. must hold Peru to trade deal and protect Amazon (commentary)

David Hill 15 Feb 2019

Invaded Uru-eu-wau-wau indigenous reserve awaits relief by Brazil’s new government

Gustavo Faleiros 14 Feb 2019

Amazon at risk: Brazil plans rapid road and rail infrastructure expansion

Sue Branford 12 Feb 2019

Dam déjà vu: 2 Brazil mining waste disasters in 3 years raise alarms

Zoe Sullivan and Caio de Freitas Paes 11 Feb 2019

New appointments, new policies don’t bode well for Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 4 Feb 2019

Will President Bolsonaro withdraw Brazil from the Paris Agreement? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 31 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro government reveals plan to develop the ‘Unproductive Amazon’

Jan Rocha 28 Jan 2019

Of concrete and corruption: Resistance kills Andes Amazon dams

Saul Elbein 24 Jan 2019

As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation

Anna Sophie Gross 17 Jan 2019

Brazilian hunger for meat fattened on soy is deforesting the Cerrado: report

Giovanni Ortolani 16 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 14 Jan 2019

Bringing the tapir back to Borneo

Jeremy Hance 14 Jan 2019

Brazil’s indigenous agency acts to protect isolated Kawahiva people

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 2 Jan 2019

Brazil: Bolsonaro supporter works to imprison Dorothy Stang’s successor

Daniel Camargos, Roberto Cataldo — translator 28 Dec 2018

Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 20 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

Sue Branford; Thais Borges; and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2018

COP24: Summit a step forward, but fails to address climate urgency

Justin Catanoso 17 Dec 2018

Purus-Madeira: Amazon parks and extraordinary biodiversity at risk now

Gustavo Faleiros; images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 17 Dec 2018

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Will they stay or will they go? Brazil’s threat to leave Paris

Justin Catanoso 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Fossil Fuel Inc.’s outsize presence at talks reflects its influence

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2018

Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding

Max Nathanson 10 Dec 2018

Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 6 Dec 2018

Santo Antônio mega-dam on Brazil’s Madeira River disrupts local lives

Sonya Cunningham 3 Dec 2018

Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end: experts

Claire Asher 29 Nov 2018

Tax havens and Brazilian Amazon deforestation linked: study

Giovanni Ortolani 21 Nov 2018

Purus-Madeira: the Amazon arc of deforestation marches north

Gustavo Faleiros, Marcio Isensee e Sá 20 Nov 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Nov 2018

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