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Satellite image from Google Earth: Tanguro, Brazil -12.262600, -52.733553

Deforestation continues upward trend in the Brazilian Amazon

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2018

Chainsaw Massacre: Protected areas in danger in Brazil’s state of Rondônia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Paulo Vilela Cruz 31 Oct 2018

Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 24 Oct 2018

Amazon and climate science threatened if Bolsonaro elected Brazil’s president (commentary)

17 Latin American scientists 23 Oct 2018

Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Oct 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, Stephen Polasky 17 Oct 2018

For an Amazon tribe, phone cameras shine a light on their wildlife

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 15 Oct 2018
Aloisio Sampaio, a trade unionist known as Alenquer, the leader of the KM Mil landless peasant occupation. He was murdered on 11 October. Image by Thais Borges.

Landless movement leader assassinated in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Oct 2018

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

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Oct 2018

Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Oct 2018

Brazil scraps 11 new Amazon protected areas covering 2,316 square miles

Sue Branford 8 Oct 2018

8,100-square-mile indigenous reserve recognized in Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 5 Oct 2018

Frogs coping with fatal fungus in Panamanian forest, study finds

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2018
Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS

Pasture expansion driving deforestation in Brazilian protected area

Mike Gaworecki 4 Oct 2018

Scientists urge greater protection of Brazil’s secondary forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Oct 2018

Purus-Madeira: journey to the Amazon’s newest deforestation frontier

Gustavo Faleiros, Marcio Isensee e Sá 1 Oct 2018
Planet satellite image showing a mosaic of deforestation and rainforest in São Judas Tadeu, Xapuri in the state of Acre, Brazil in August 2018. Courtesy of Planet.

Ahead of election, deforestation continues to climb in the Brazilian Amazon

Mongabay.com 30 Sep 2018

Massive loss of mammal species in Atlantic Forest since the 1500s

John Cannon 28 Sep 2018

‘Predatory agribusiness’ likely to gain more power in Brazil election: report

Ana Magalhães for Repórter Brasil 28 Sep 2018

Brazilian elections and the environment: where top candidates stand

Jenny Gonzales 17 Sep 2018

World’s first indigenous carbon offset project suspended due to illegal mining

Max Nathanson 11 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
Indonesian rainforest in Bukit Tigapuluh, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Aligning forces for tropical forests as a climate change solution (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 8 Sep 2018
Planet Labs satellite image showing deforestation around the Xingu Basin in Brazil in June 2018.

Deforestation continues upward trend in Brazil, says NGO

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2018

Brazil’s pesticide poisoning problem poses global dilemma, say critics

Anna Sophie Gross 27 Aug 2018

Drone used to confirm existence of uncontacted Amazon tribe (video)

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2018
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A river runs through it — and keeps the Amazon’s bird species diverse

Claire Asher 24 Aug 2018

Community-run trading posts help Amazon forest people reverse rural exodus

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Aug 2018

Brazil hits emissions target early, but rising deforestation risks reversal

John Cannon 23 Aug 2018
Photo courtesy Guilherme Rodrigues

In Brazil, a forest community helps seed new trees far and wide

Ignacio Amigo 21 Aug 2018

Fake logging permits undermine Amazonian conservation, say experts

Genevieve Belmaker 17 Aug 2018

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