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A Brazilian forest community shows certified timber really does work

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 22 Jul 2020

Photos: In southern Papua, navigating an alien world built on palm oil

Albertus Vembrianto 22 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

Only a few ‘rotten apples’ causing most illegal Brazil deforestation: Study

Sarah Sax 17 Jul 2020

Corn growers in Brazil’s Cerrado reap a hostile climate of their own making

Maurício Angelo 15 Jul 2020

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

Peter Speetjens 13 Jul 2020

10-year plan hopes to give western chimpanzees a fighting chance

Jim Tan 10 Jul 2020

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

Sue Branford 7 Jul 2020

That coconut oil you love? Species have gone extinct over it, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Jul 2020

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

Fábio Nascimento (photos), Gustavo Faleiros 1 Jul 2020

The Consultant: Why did a palm oil conglomerate pay $22m to an unnamed ‘expert’ in Papua?

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 25 Jun 2020

Illegal farms on indigenous lands get whitewashed under Bolsonaro administration

Bruno Fonseca, Rafael Oliveira 23 Jun 2020

China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation, climate change: Study

Chris Arsenault 23 Jun 2020

Experts see environmental, social fallout in Indonesia’s infrastructure push

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 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

Amazon deforestation gig economy booms despite COVID-19 (Photo Essay)

Fábio Nascimento (photos), Gustavo Faleiros 3 Jun 2020

Communities on Brazil’s ‘River of Unity’ tested by dams, climate change

Sarah Sax 2 Jun 2020

Offensive against the Amazon: An incontrollable pandemic (commentary)

Marcos Colón, Luís de Camões Lima Boaventura, Erik Jennings 1 Jun 2020

In the Amazon, a farmer practices the future of sustainable cattle ranching

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 28 May 2020

Green alert: How indigenous people are experiencing climate change in the Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 27 May 2020

Loggers attack Brazilian environmental official in Amazon; Bolsonaro silent

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 27 May 2020

Brazil minister advises using COVID-19 to distract from Amazon deregulation

Jenny Gonzales 26 May 2020
Flooded forest in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Brazil’s ‘land-grabbers law’ threatens Amazonia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 25 May 2020

The unknown Cerrado and its colossal biological relevance (commentary)

Michael Becker 22 May 2020

Indonesian levee project serves industry over community, study says

Basten Gokkon 22 May 2020

As their land claim stalls, Brazil’s Munduruku face pressure from soybean farms

Caio de Freitas Paes 21 May 2020

Kafka in the Amazon: Volunteer forest fire fighter charged with arson still in limbo

Peter Speetjens 20 May 2020

Land scarcity and disease threaten a multifaceted indigenous crop in Ethiopia

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 19 May 2020
Uncontacted indigenous group in the Amazon photographed by authorities with the Brazilian Indian affairs agency FUNAI. Photo by Gleison Miranda-FUNAI.

Indigenous COVID-19 cases top 500, danger mapped in Brazil agricultural hub

Sam Cowie 18 May 2020

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