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Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Early deforestation numbers for 2019 reveal trends in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Feb 2020

Private firms will pay soy farmers not to deforest Brazil’s Cerrado

Sarah Sax 11 Feb 2020

Database offers new details on the dams that hold mining waste

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2020
Google Earth image of fish-scale deforestation east of Caroebe, in the state of Roraima, Brazil in January 2020

Deforestation in Brazil continues torrid pace into 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Feb 2020

Bolsonaro sends Congress bill to open indigenous lands to mining, fossil fuels

Jan Rocha 7 Feb 2020

Escalating firestorms could turn Amazon from carbon sink to source: Study

Taran Volckhausen 6 Feb 2020

Carbon uptake slower than expected in Amazon secondary forest: Study

Liz Kimbrough 5 Feb 2020

Chief Raoni, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, presides over historic meeting with over 600 indigenous leaders in Brazil

Rafael Forsetto 5 Feb 2020

Upset about Amazon fires last year? Focus on deforestation this year (commentary)

Matt Finer 4 Feb 2020

Carbon emissions from Peruvian gold mining ‘alarming,’ experts say

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Feb 2020

Success of Microsoft’s ‘moonshot’ climate pledge hinges on forest conservation

Justin Catanoso 3 Feb 2020

Xavante tribe digs in as Brazil reneges on vow not to build a road in their reserve

Caio de Freitas Paes 30 Jan 2020

Use it, don’t lose it: Q&A with Amazon eco scientist Marcelino Guedes

Débora Pinto 29 Jan 2020

What starts in the Amazon doesn’t stay there: Fires melting Andes glaciers

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2020

Despite foreign aid, Colombia struggles to rein in Amazon deforestation

Taran Volckhausen 29 Jan 2020

For Colombia, 2019 was a year of environmental discontent

Antonio José Paz Cardona 28 Jan 2020
Waura man in Brazil. Photo by Sue Wren.

Indigenous, protected lands in Amazon emit far less carbon than areas outside

John Cannon 28 Jan 2020

NGOs demand inquiry into Environment Minister aid to Amazon land grabbers

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jan 2020

Impending Amazon tipping point puts biome and world at risk, scientists warn

Shanna Hanbury 27 Jan 2020

Vale has filed hundreds of requests to exploit indigenous lands in Amazon

Maurício Angelo 27 Jan 2020

Brazil’s Bolsonaro creates Amazon Council and Environmental Police force

Jan Rocha 24 Jan 2020

Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away: study

Claire Asher 23 Jan 2020

Amazon’s Munduruku stage daring Christmas raid to recover sacred urns

Rosamaria Loures, Sue Branford 20 Jan 2020

Fines for Amazon fires may go to indigenous communities under new bill

Mônica Nunes 17 Jan 2020

Belo Monte boondoggle: Brazil’s biggest, costliest dam may be unviable

Tiffany Higgins 17 Jan 2020

Conflict in the Chico Mendes Reserve threatens this pioneering Amazonian project

Naira Hofmeister 16 Jan 2020
CANDEIRAS DO JAMARI, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL: Aerial view of a large burned area in the city of Candeiras do Jamari in the state of Rondônia. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

For final months of 2019, Amazon deforestation hits highest level in at least 13 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jan 2020

Five murdered in 2020 Brazilian Amazon land conflicts, adding to 2019 surge

Sam Cowie 14 Jan 2020

Ten actions for Brazilian scientists to engage in environmental politics (commentary)

Ananda R. Pereira Martins, Lucas Pereira Martins, Leila Figueiredo 10 Jan 2020
Detail of the Igarapé Água Branca stream, the last clean waterway in the city of Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, in the Amazon region. Image by César Nogueira.

The fight is on to save the last clean waterway in Brazil’s Manaus

Sam Cowie 8 Jan 2020

Indigenous artists from the Amazon use art for environmental advocacy

Débora Menezes 7 Jan 2020

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2020 could see revived Amazon mining assault — part two

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 31 Dec 2019

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