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Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 14 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

Sue Branford; Thais Borges; and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2018

COP24: Summit a step forward, but fails to address climate urgency

Justin Catanoso 17 Dec 2018

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Will they stay or will they go? Brazil’s threat to leave Paris

Justin Catanoso 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2018

Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding

Max Nathanson 10 Dec 2018

COP24: Coal casts a shadow over U.N. climate talks in Poland

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2018

Santo Antônio mega-dam on Brazil’s Madeira River disrupts local lives

Sonya Cunningham 3 Dec 2018

Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end: experts

Claire Asher 29 Nov 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Nov 2018

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Anna Sophie Gross 7 Nov 2018

Jair Bolsonaro: looming threat to the Amazon and global climate?

Jenny Gonzales 18 Oct 2018

Fate of the Amazon is on the ballot in Brazil’s presidential election (commentary)

Aline C. Soterroni; Fernando M. Ramos; Michael Obersteiner; and Stephen Polasky 17 Oct 2018

Amazonia and the setbacks of Brazil’s political moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Oct 2018
Planet satellite image of the open pit copper-gold mine on Sumbawa.

Indonesian province calls time-out on mining

Ebed de Rosary 19 Sep 2018

Brazilian elections and the environment: where top candidates stand

Jenny Gonzales 17 Sep 2018

Putting the action in the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco

Justin Catanoso 14 Sep 2018
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazilian legislators break law, attack Amazon, trade freely with world: report

Sue Branford 11 Sep 2018

Chinese / Western financing of roads, dams led to major Andes Amazon deforestation

Gus Greenstein 1 Aug 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018

Could El Niño and climate change spell the end for tropical forests?

Claire Salisbury 25 Jun 2018

In a country long wary of nuclear, an Indonesian chases the thorium dream

Nadine Freischlad 12 Jun 2018
Khanh Nguy Thi. Photo courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize.

Vietnam’s first Goldman Prize winner pushes for energy conservation

Michael Tatarski 29 May 2018

Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 May 2018

Damming the Amazon unfettered after Brazilian purge (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 14 May 2018

UN forest accounting loophole allows CO2 underreporting by EU, UK, US

Justin Catanoso 2 May 2018

3,000 indigenous people gather in Brasilia to protest ruralist agenda

Sue Branford 30 Apr 2018

China’s Belt and Road poised to transform the Earth, but at what cost?

Giovanni Ortolani 24 Apr 2018

Brazil’s actual forest-related CO2 emissions could blow by Paris pledge

Claire Asher 19 Apr 2018

Brazil’s high court curbs executive power to dismember protected areas

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 12 Apr 2018

NGOs denounce Tapajós basin intimidation, violence, Brazil inaction

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 4 Apr 2018

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