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Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges

Justin Catanoso 31 Aug 2020

Key Amazon grain route blocked by Indigenous protest over funding, Grainrail

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 24 Aug 2020

Indigenous best Amazon stewards, but only when property rights assured: Study

Sue Branford 17 Aug 2020

Favoring ayahuasca over hospitals, Indigenous Kokama see COVID-19 deaths drop in the Amazon

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 17 Aug 2020

All talk, no walk: ‘Green’ financiers still support Amazon beef industry

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini e Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 13 Aug 2020

Paper maze and lack of transparency cloak investment in companies involved in Amazon deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini and Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 11 Aug 2020

As Amazon tree loss worsens, political pressure grows, and Brazil hedges: Critics

Jenny Gonzales 10 Aug 2020

Life among the turtles: Traditional people struggle inside an Amazon reserve

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 10 Aug 2020

Deforestation in the Amazon is drying up the rest of Brazil: Report

Sibélia Zanon 7 Aug 2020

Brazil dismantles environmental laws via huge surge in executive acts: Study

Jenny Gonzales 5 Aug 2020

Goldminers overrun Amazon indigenous lands as COVID-19 surges

Jenny Gonzales 30 Jul 2020

Burning down the house? Enviva’s giant U.S. wood pellet plants gear up

Saul Elbein 29 Jul 2020

Niobium mining in Brazilian Amazon would cause significant forest loss: Study

Taran Volckhausen 24 Jul 2020

Scientists measure Amazon drought and deforestation feedback loop: Study

Shanna Hanbury 21 Jul 2020

World’s biggest meatpacker JBS bought illegally grazed Amazon cattle: Report

Sam Cowie 20 Jul 2020

International investors urge Brazil to take real action to stop deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel from ((o))eco 17 Jul 2020

Brazil’s past finance ministers defend environment against Bolsonaro

Jenny Gonzales 16 Jul 2020

Life as an Amazon activist: ‘I don’t want to be the next Dorothy Stang’

Peter Speetjens 13 Jul 2020

Siberian heat drives Arctic ice extent to record low for early July

Gloria Dickie 10 Jul 2020

Traditional villages dread living in shadow of Amazon tailings dams

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 9 Jul 2020

Prosecutors target Brazil’s environment minister over dismantling of protections

Suzana Camargo 8 Jul 2020

Brazilian court orders 20,000 gold miners removed from Yanomami Park

Sue Branford 7 Jul 2020

World’s biggest trade deal in trouble over EU anger at Brazil deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 6 Jul 2020

Brazil could dynamite Amazon dolphin, turtle habitat for industrial waterway

Tiffany Higgins 2 Jul 2020

Gold priced at $1,700 per ounce brings new gold rush to Brazilian Amazon

Fábio Nascimento (photos) and Gustavo Faleiros (text) 1 Jul 2020

Brazil’s indigenous hit especially hard by COVID-19: why so vulnerable?

Sue Branford 25 Jun 2020

Illegal farms on indigenous lands get whitewashed under Bolsonaro administration

Bruno Fonseca and Rafael Oliveira from Agência Pública 23 Jun 2020

British Columbia poised to lose ‘white rhino of old growth forests’

Justin Catanoso 22 Jun 2020

Brazilian government taken to court for assault on environment, climate

Sam Cowie 10 Jun 2020

A bid to legitimize invasions of Brazil’s indigenous lands faces a court challenge

Caio de Freitas Paes 10 Jun 2020

Report names the banks financing destructive oil projects in the Amazon

Maurício Angelo 9 Jun 2020

‘Every time an elder dies, a library is burnt’: Amazon COVID-19 toll grows

Sue Branford 9 Jun 2020

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