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A guigna.

Wild cats threatened by ‘underrecognized’ risk of spillover disease

Sean Mowbray 13 Oct 2022

As Brazil starts repaving an Amazon highway, land grabbers get to work

Caio Guatelli 13 Oct 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

Successes and struggles: Brazil’s 20-year Amazon reforestation carbon sink project

Marina Martinez 12 Oct 2022

Amazonian river communities seek to boost hard-won land rights to fight loggers

Lais Modelli 11 Oct 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Ahead of election, deforestation increased in Brazil

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2022
Logging operation in the Amazon.

Brazil may fail Paris Agreement targets by 137% if Bolsonaro stays in office

Jaqueline Sordi 7 Oct 2022

Conservatives tighten grip on Brazil Congress, hampering environmental agenda

Jaqueline Sordi 5 Oct 2022
A Charonias theano butterfly

Trouble in the tropics: The terrestrial insects of Brazil are in decline

Jeremy Hance 5 Oct 2022
The Javari River where it forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Cutting down the Amazon does not build prosperity for most Brazilians

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2022

Brazil 2022: Election, environment and the future of the Amazon

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 29 Sep 2022

The Fixers: Top U.S. flooring retailers linked to Brazilian firm probed for corruption

Karla Mendes 29 Sep 2022

In Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, deforesters foot the bill for political campaigns

Caio de Freitas Paes 28 Sep 2022
Jair Bolsonaro with supporters

In the Amazon, Bolsonaro’s far right may retain power even if Lula wins

Jaqueline Sordi 26 Sep 2022

Reducing beef’s carbon footprint is key to achieving net-zero in Latin America and the Caribbean, new paper shows

Sarah Sax 26 Sep 2022
Vehicles on the Trans-Amazonian Highway

Road network spreads ‘arteries of destruction’ across 41% of Brazilian Amazon

Antenor Savoldi Junior 22 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022

European bill passes to ban imports of deforestation-linked commodities

André Schröder 15 Sep 2022
Jair Bolsonaro

Bolsonaro trails in polls, but his base in Congress looks likely to persist

Sarah Brown 13 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation in Brazil booms in August

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2022
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rallies his supporters in Belo Horizonte.

Brazil faces two contrasting legacies for the Amazon in October’s elections

Aldem Bourscheit 9 Sep 2022

Blazing start to Amazon’s ‘fire season’ as burning hits August record

Jaqueline Sordi 1 Sep 2022

‘Brazilians aren’t familiar with the Amazon’: Q&A with Ângela Mendes

Carolina Conti 1 Sep 2022

Crimes against the Amazon reverberate across Brazil, analysis shows

Elizabeth Oliveira 31 Aug 2022
Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia state.Greenpeace Brazil flew over the southern Amazonas and northern Rondônia states in Brazil to monitor deforestation and forest fires in the Amazon in July 2022. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Indepedent watchdog confirms rampant deforestation in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 31 Aug 2022
Tamandua and Pakyî

Brazil miner sees Indigenous land as ripe for exploration if protections expire

Sydney Bauer 30 Aug 2022
Yanomami Indigenous

Raids reveal how illegal gold from Indigenous lands gets laundered in Brazil

André Schröder 29 Aug 2022

Bolsonaro agenda gets a lift from dominance of ‘new right’ in Congress

Diego Junqueira, from Repórter Brasil, Gisele Lobato, Marina Rossi 29 Aug 2022

Commodity kings Cargill, Bunge buying soy from stolen Indigenous land, report says

Maxwell Radwin 19 Aug 2022
Apuí, Amazonas state. Greenpeace Brazil flew over the southern Amazonas and northern Rondônia states in Brazil to monitor deforestation and forest fires in the Amazon in July 2022. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation on pace to roughly match last year’s rate of loss

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2022
Cattle ranch in Mato Grosso

New Brazil bill puts cattle pasture over Pantanal wetland

Sarah Brown 9 Aug 2022

Big banks fund the heavy machinery used for Amazon deforestation, report says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Aug 2022

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