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Amazon indigenous put at risk by Brazil’s feeble Covid-19 response: Critics

Sam Cowie 20 Mar 2020

Arctic permafrost moving toward crisis, abrupt thaw a growing risk: Studies

Gloria Dickie 18 Mar 2020

Bringing Christ and coronavirus: Evangelicals to contact Amazon indigenous

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2020

Brazil sets record for highly hazardous pesticide consumption: Report

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2020

Indonesian police charge indigenous men in dispute over nutmeg plantation

Nurdin Tubaka 12 Mar 2020

Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 11 Mar 2020

Indonesian indigenous land defenders jailed in fight with pulpwood giant

Ayat S. Karokaro 9 Mar 2020

NGOs charge Brazil’s Bolsonaro with risk of indigenous ‘genocide’ at UN

Sue Branford 5 Mar 2020

A bloody January for Brazil’s indigenous Kaiowá spotlights persecution

Caio de Freitas Paes 2 Mar 2020

Barrage of mining requests targets Brazil’s isolated indigenous peoples

Maurício Angelo 26 Feb 2020

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

Shanna Hanbury 24 Feb 2020

Past and future tropical dams devastating to fish the world over: Study

Asher Elbein 21 Feb 2020

Making a thriller out of Belo Monte hydro dam: Q&A with filmmaker Sabrina McCormick

Débora Pinto 18 Feb 2020

Pope makes impassioned plea to save the Amazon — will the world listen?

Justin Catanoso 17 Feb 2020

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

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 10 Feb 2020

Bolsonaro sends Congress bill to open indigenous lands to mining, fossil fuels

Jan Rocha 7 Feb 2020

Use it, don’t lose it: Q&A with Amazon eco scientist Marcelino Guedes

Débora Pinto 29 Jan 2020

NGOs demand inquiry into Environment Minister aid to Amazon land grabbers

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jan 2020

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

Shanna Hanbury 27 Jan 2020

Vale has filed hundreds of requests to exploit indigenous lands in Amazon

Maurício Angelo / Observatório da Mineração 27 Jan 2020

Brazil’s Bolsonaro creates Amazon Council and Environmental Police force

Jan Rocha 24 Jan 2020
Shaman Angohó Ha-ha-hãe, one of the leaders of Naô Xohã indigenous village, poses for a photo close to the Paraopeba River. The Naô Xohã community is requesting to be temporarily relocated by Vale due to the river pollution. Image by Luiz Guilherme Fernandes for Mongabay

After a mine killed their river, a Brazil tribe fights for a new home

Elisângela Mendonça 24 Jan 2020
Experts fear that international markets will close their doors to Peru due to illegal timber. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

U.S. lumber company found importing high-risk Peruvian timber

Michael Tatarski 23 Jan 2020

Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away: study

Claire Asher 23 Jan 2020

Amazon’s Munduruku stage daring Christmas raid to recover sacred urns

Rosamaria Loures; and Sue Branford* 20 Jan 2020

Fines for Amazon fires may go to indigenous communities under new bill

Mônica Nunes/Conexão Planeta 17 Jan 2020

Belo Monte boondoggle: Brazil’s biggest, costliest dam may be unviable

Tiffany Higgins 17 Jan 2020

Conflict in the Chico Mendes Reserve threatens this pioneering Amazonian project

Naira Hofmeister 16 Jan 2020

Five murdered in 2020 Brazilian Amazon land conflicts, adding to 2019 surge

Sam Cowie 14 Jan 2020

Communities in Brazilian Cerrado besieged by global demand for soy

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 13 Jan 2020

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2020 could see revived Amazon mining assault — part two

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 31 Dec 2019

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2019 brings death by 1,000 cuts to Amazon — part one

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 30 Dec 2019

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