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Ranchers who received customized training made more sustainable changes to their properties, including pasture restoration, that led to both economic and environmental benefits, researchers say.

Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil’s cattle ranchers and forests

Sarah Brown 12 May 2022
Forest fire in a deforested area in an undesignated public forest in Altamira, Pará on Jul 31, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga/Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation surges in April

Mongabay.com 6 May 2022

A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters

Ronaldo Ribeiro, Letícia Klein, Kevin Damasio, Laura Kurtzberg, Ambiental Media 5 May 2022
Deforestation frontier in Jaru, Brazil

Putin’s financial interest in Brazil’s Amazon highways (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 4 May 2022

Surge in deforestation as Brazil pushes to pave a forgotten Amazon road

Naira Hofmeister 4 May 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022

Illegal miners bring sexual violence and disease to Indigenous reserve in Brazil

Lais Modelli 28 Apr 2022
According to the Forest Code, rural properties located in the Cerrado biome of Mato Grosso state must maintain 35% of their native vegetation.

Brazil bill seeks to redraw Amazon borders in favor of agribusiness

Jenny Gonzales 25 Apr 2022

Saving old-growth forests: Q&A with Amazon Watch’s Leila Salazar-López

Maxwell Radwin 22 Apr 2022

Canadian miners get high-level lobbying boost for Brazilian Amazon projects

Caio de Freitas Paes, Agência Pública 20 Apr 2022
A mural depicting Indigenous faces stretches across a wall in the historic center of Manaus, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

History on the walls: Graffiti brings Manaus’s Indigenous roots to light

Ana Ionova 19 Apr 2022

Amid extinctions, forest corridors aim to save rare birds in Brazil’s northeast

Sibélia Zanon 18 Apr 2022
An Indigenous man practices a ritual in front of a large crowd during the Free Land Camp 2022. Around 6,000 Indigenous people gathered in Brasília where they debated current issues that are affecting Indigenous and traditional peoples’ rights.

Forest loss shows stopgap decrees failing to protect Brazil’s isolated Indigenous

Sarah Brown 15 Apr 2022
Forest fire in a deforested area in an undesignated public forest in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation dips slightly in March, but remains high

Mongabay.com 9 Apr 2022

Best-preserved part of Brazil’s Amazon, home to isolated tribes, faces ‘decimation’

Lais Modelli 31 Mar 2022

Making room in the Atlantic Forest for the largest primate in the Americas

Bernardo Araujo, Duda Menegassi for ((o))eco 30 Mar 2022
NASA satellite image of the Rio Tapajos in March 2022.

Dams on Brazil’s Jamanxim River: The advancing assault on the environment and Indigenous peoples in the Tapajós basin (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 29 Mar 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

‘Giving up’: Amazon is losing its resilience under human pressure, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2022

Chinese investment in Latin America plagues people and nature: Report

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2022

In Rio de Janeiro, a forest slowly returns to life, one species at a time

Daniele Bragança, Duda Menegassi for ((o))eco 21 Mar 2022
Gold mining in the Kayapó Indigenous Territory in 2022. Image credit: NASA

Brazil’s ecosystem of crime in the Amazon (commentary)

Laura Waisbich, Melina Risso, Ilona Szabo 21 Mar 2022

2021 Amazon deforestation map shows devastating impact of ranching, agriculture

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2022

Brazil Congress fast-tracks ‘death package’ bill to mine on Indigenous lands

Sarah Brown 15 Mar 2022

To fight invaders, Munduruku women wield drone cameras and cellphones

Joana Moncau, Elpida Nikou, from Repórter Brasil 15 Mar 2022
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

Amazon deforestation starts 2022 on the fastest pace in 14 years

Mongabay.com 15 Mar 2022

In Brazil, Indigenous Ka’apor take their territory’s defense into their own hands

Andrew Johnson 14 Mar 2022

Luxury wood market driving extinction of rare ipê trees, report warns

Maxwell Radwin 14 Mar 2022

South America hosts nearly half of 9,000 tree species unknown to science

Suzana Camargo 10 Mar 2022

Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon deforestation

Lucas Ferraz, Guilherme Henrique 8 Mar 2022

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest gets a chance at a fresh start through restoration

Taís Seibt and Duda Menegassi 7 Mar 2022

In destroying the Amazon, big agribusiness is torching its own viability

Sarah Brown 7 Mar 2022

A more potent CO2 sink than the Amazon, Brazil’s mangroves remain overlooked

Suzana Camargo 3 Mar 2022

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