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Artistic rendering of a forest shaped like a brain. AI-generated.

To reverse deforestation and protect biodiversity, build a bioeconomy in the Amazon (commentary)

Robert Muggah 23 Feb 2024

Land use planning helps advance conservation in Brazil

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Feb 2024
Generated image showing a road through a deforested landscape.

Brazil’s BR-319 highway: The danger reaches a critical moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 17 Feb 2024

In Brazil’s soy belt, community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon

Ana Ionova 15 Feb 2024

Brazil’s 2024-2027 “Transversal Environmental Agenda”: The elephants in the room (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 4 Feb 2024
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

Grassroots efforts and an Emmy-winning film help Indigenous fight in Brazil

Sarah Brown 29 Jan 2024

Terra Legal program to regularize small property owners | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Jan 2024
Researcher Guilherme Cabral

Why the Amazon’s small streams have a major impact on its grand rivers

Letícia Klein/Ambiental Media 18 Jan 2024

Agrarian reform agencies and national land registry systems in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 18 Jan 2024

The dynamics of violence in pursuit of land in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Jan 2024
Fire and deforestation in the Amacro region (the states of Amazonas, Acre and Rondônia) in the Brazilian Amazon in late August 2022. Photo © Nilmar Lage / Greenpeace

Amazonia in flames: Unlearned lessons from the 2023 Manaus smoke crisis (commentary)

Lucas Ferrante, Philip M. Fearnside 17 Jan 2024

Thousands of tree species at risk of extinction in Atlantic Forest: study

Maxwell Radwin 16 Jan 2024

Land in the Pan Amazon, the ultimate commodity: Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Jan 2024
Rainforest in Sulawesi. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

2024 outlook for rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jan 2024
Planet satellite images of the confluence of the Rio Negro and Rio Jufari near the border of the states of Amazonas and Roraima in Brazil taken in October 2023, revealing sandbars and exposed riverbed during the severe drought that affected large parts of the Amazon rainforest. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

The year in rainforests: 2023

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2023

Company sells Indigenous land in Amazonas as NFTs without community’s knowledge

Fábio Bispo 26 Dec 2023

Colombian companies defy laws, push Amazon carbon projects in Indigenous lands

Fábio Bispo 22 Dec 2023
At least 228 freshwater dolphins have died in lakes connected to rivers, possibly killed by excess heat.

Detailed NASA analysis finds Earth and Amazon in deep climate trouble

Jenny Gonzales 21 Dec 2023

Other financial systems in the agricultural practice of the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Dec 2023

Race to destroy the Amazon forest: Brazil’s National Congress set to force construction of Highway BR-319 (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Dec 2023
Rendering of an oil derrick in the rainforest. AI-generated.

Brazil’s “End-of-the-World” auction for oil and gas drilling (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 16 Dec 2023

Major soy producers announce improved deforestation commitments—with caveats

Maxwell Radwin 15 Dec 2023

Rural finance in the Pan Amazon: the Brazil success case

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Dec 2023

Roundtables and certification schemes in the Pan-Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Dec 2023

Deforestation falls for 8th straight month in the Amazon rainforest, but rises in the cerrado

Mongabay.com 8 Dec 2023

Coca in the Amazon – The anti-development crop

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Dec 2023

Local and national food crops in the Andean Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2023

Brazil cattle traceability program to limit deforestation in Pará state

Maxwell Radwin 4 Dec 2023
Planet satellite images of the drought-affected Rio Negro in October 2023. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

What Brazil should have said at COP28 but didn’t (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 4 Dec 2023
Rainbow over rainforest and plantations in Jambi on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Photo credit Rhett A. Butler

Brazil proposes $250 billion “Tropical Forests Forever” fund for rainforests

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2023

High quality cacao in Amazonia

Timothy J. Killeen 29 Nov 2023

Cargill widens its deforestation-free goals, but critics say it’s not enough

Maxwell Radwin 29 Nov 2023

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