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Landmark decision: Brazil Supreme Court sides with Indigenous land rights

Ana Ionova 13 Apr 2021
Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global forest loss increased in 2020

Rhett A. Butler 31 Mar 2021

The nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable

Claire Asher 30 Mar 2021

Guarani Indigenous men brutalized in Brazilian ‘expansion of violence’

Jenny Gonzales 24 Mar 2021

Brazil’s isolated tribes in the crosshairs of miners targeting Indigenous lands

Hyury Potter and Fabio Bispo 17 Mar 2021

Facebook enabling Amazon land grabbing, deforestation, finds investigation

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 3 Mar 2021

The Possible Meat: A Brazilian farmer shows ranching can regenerate the Cerrado

Agostino Petroni 3 Mar 2021

As Amazon forest-to-savanna tipping point looms, solutions remain elusive

Shanna Hanbury 23 Feb 2021

New platform gathers data on Brazil’s disappearing Cerrado biome

Clarissa Beretz 23 Feb 2021

Cat corridors between protected areas is key to survival of Cerrado’s jaguars

Romi Castagnino 16 Feb 2021

Pandemic fails to slow agribusiness’s thirst for Cerrado’s water

Caio de Freitas Paes 8 Feb 2021

Investigation: Dutch, Japanese pension funds pay for Amazon deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini from ((o))oeco 5 Feb 2021

Brazil guts agencies, ‘sabotaging environmental protection’ in Amazon: Report

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 1 Feb 2021

Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining

Sam Cowie 22 Jan 2021

An eye in the sky on deforestation: Q&A with Jean Jardeleza and Kim Carlson

Claudia Geib 18 Jan 2021
The Durmitor Mountains and the Tara River Canyon in Montenegro. Image by Pudelek (Marcin Szala) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture

John Cannon 18 Jan 2021

Traditional and Indigenous peoples ‘denounce’ planned Amazon railway

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 23 Dec 2020

Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Dec 2020
Farmers cut grass and shrub fodder for their livestock. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese for Mongabay.

Land inequality is worsening and fueling other social ills, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Dec 2020

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

Ana Ionova 3 Dec 2020

‘Turning fear into strength’: One woman’s struggle for justice and land rights in Sulawesi

Febriana Firdaus 1 Dec 2020

‘Certified’ palm oil linked to worse social, ecological outcomes for Indonesian villagers

Loren Bell 30 Nov 2020

Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside; Lucas Ferrante; Aurora M. Yanai; and Marcos Antonio Isaac Júnior 24 Nov 2020

Inside the weaving protests of West Timor

Febriana Firdaus 20 Nov 2020

The Amazon’s Yanomami utterly abandoned by Brazilian authorities: Report

Sue Branford 19 Nov 2020

Multiplying Amazon river ports open new Brazil-to-China commodities routes

Manuela Andreoni; Diálogo Chino 19 Nov 2020

For sustainable business, ‘planetary boundaries’ define the new rules

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Nov 2020

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

Ana Ionova 17 Nov 2020

Brazil’s Bem Querer dam: An impending Amazon disaster (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 16 Nov 2020

The women of Kendeng set their feet in cement to stop a mine in their lands. This is their story.

Febriana Firdaus 13 Nov 2020

Satellites, maps and the flow of cattle: Brazilian solutions for reducing deforestation are already in use

Naira Hofmeister and Fernanda Wenzel and Pedro Papini 12 Nov 2020

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2020

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