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Brazil: deforestation in the Amazon increased 29% over last year

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Nov 2016

NYT explores life and impact of Chico Mendes, “a Fighter for the Amazon”

Mike Gaworecki 28 Nov 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016

Amazon oil spill impacts indigenous villages on Teles Pires River

Zoe Sullivan 21 Nov 2016

New report: Brazil’s Cerrado could sidestep conversion for agriculture

John Cannon 13 Nov 2016

Feral pigs, vampire bats, and infectious diseases in rural Brazil

Mike Gaworecki 11 Nov 2016

‘A man schooled in the Amazon:’ Q&A with director of new feature film about the fight to save the rainforest

Mike Gaworecki 9 Nov 2016

Lakes in community hands spur gains for people and fish

John Cannon 20 Oct 2016

Study finds Brazil isn’t counting all deforestation in official estimates

Mike Gaworecki 19 Oct 2016

Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford 17 Oct 2016

A cost-benefit analysis of securing indigenous land rights in the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 11 Oct 2016

Brazil pledges to cut carbon, but government policies say otherwise

Jenny Gonzales 6 Oct 2016

Brazil revises Amazon deforestation 6% upward

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Oct 2016

U.S. imports of Amazon crude oil driving expansion of oil operations

Mike Gaworecki 30 Sep 2016

Amazon radio network unites regional opposition to Tapajós basin dams

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2016

Scientists say Amazon biodiversity could help fuel Fourth Industrial Revolution

Mike Gaworecki 20 Sep 2016

Interpol issues notice about illegal timber trading operation in Brazil

Mike Gaworecki 15 Sep 2016

Beef consumers’ role in causing deforestation in South America (commentary)

Asha Sharma 13 Sep 2016

Operation license for Amazon’s Belo Monte mega-dam suspended

Zoe Sullivan 13 Sep 2016

Belo Monte dam compensation inadequate, say traditional fisherfolk

Zoe Sullivan 9 Sep 2016

The alarming number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon

Natália Girão Rodrigues de Mello 8 Sep 2016

Rainforest destruction rises in the Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2016

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Sue Branford 26 Aug 2016

Raging Amazon forest fires threaten uncontacted indigenous tribe

Mike Gaworecki 23 Aug 2016

Why is Brazil regressing in its fight against deforestation?

Paulo Barreto 12 Aug 2016

Promised US$1 billion in Belo Monte dam compensation largely unpaid?

Carolina Torres 12 Aug 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Using Big Data to combat the illegal timber trade in Brazil

Mike Gaworecki 10 Aug 2016
Etnias, a 620-foot long mural in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, representing indigenous people from five continents by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra. The mural was commissioned for the Olympics. Photo by Agência Brasil Fotografias.

Olympics to begin amid rising violence against Brazil’s indigenous people

Sandra Cuffe 4 Aug 2016
Google Earth image showing the site for the São Luiz do Tapajós dam.

Environmental licence for São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam denied

Sue Branford 4 Aug 2016

Tapajós dams may bring fish kills, species loss, mercury contamination

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 2 Aug 2016

On eve of Olympics, Amazon deforestation surges in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jul 2016

NASA images show the Amazon could be facing an intense wildfire season this year

Mike Gaworecki 15 Jul 2016

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