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Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Aug 2018

Brazil austerity policies devastating to rural communities: analysis

Anna Sophie Gross 14 Aug 2018

Ruralists in Brazilian congress put nation’s protected areas at risk

Liz Kimbrough 14 Aug 2018

Trase.earth tracks commodities, links supply chains to deforestation risk

Claire Asher 13 Aug 2018

Death foretold? A courageous Amazon peasant couple resists illegal loggers

Thais Borges and Mauricio Torres 10 Aug 2018
Coatimundi in Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

More companies sign on to Cerrado Manifesto

Genevieve Belmaker 6 Aug 2018

Fire, more than logging, drives Amazon forest degradation, study finds

David Klinges 6 Aug 2018

Chinese / Western financing of roads, dams led to major Andes Amazon deforestation

Gus Greenstein 1 Aug 2018

Researchers are looking into the past to help ensure a future for tropical forests

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jul 2018

Deforestation skyrockets in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jul 2018
Germinating seeds in the seed bank. Photo by Ignacio Amigo/Mongabay

Brazil’s plant biodiversity still not fully present in its seed banks

Ignacio Amigo 25 Jul 2018

Temer’s deforestation policies put Paris goals at risk, scientists warn

Sue Branford 24 Jul 2018

Soy giant Louis Dreyfus pledges deforestation-free supply chain

Anna Sophie Gross 16 Jul 2018

Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jul 2018

Cerrado: traditional communities win back land from agribusiness firm

Flávia Milhorance 5 Jul 2018

Leprosy prevalent among Amazon’s armadillos, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jun 2018

The world lost an area of tropical forest the size of Bangladesh in 2017

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2018
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Winning farmer support to reduce deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad, João Shimada 24 Jun 2018

US/China trade war could boost Brazil soy export, Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 21 Jun 2018

Oil palm plantations in Amazonia inhospitable to tropical forest biodiversity: Study

Mongabay.com 18 Jun 2018

Primate-rich countries are becoming less hospitable places for monkeys, apes and lemurs

John Cannon 15 Jun 2018

Raid fails to stop gold mining, death threats on Amazon’s Tropas River

Rosamaria Loures, Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 May 2018

Dutch support soy transport mega-project, posing major risk to Amazon

Karlijn Kuijpers 29 May 2018

Illegal loggers ‘cook the books’ to harvest Amazon’s most valuable tree

Jenny Gonzales 24 May 2018

Brazil has the tools to end Amazon deforestation now: report

Giovanni Ortolani 18 May 2018

Brazilian Amazon oil palm deforestation under control, for now

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 17 May 2018

Study links malaria to deforestation in the Amazon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2018

Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 May 2018

Damming the Amazon unfettered after Brazilian purge (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 14 May 2018

Debate ensues over British supermarket chain’s decision to ban palm oil

Loren Bell 10 May 2018

A forgotten people: traditional Amazon hamlet fights for its territory

Natalia Guerrero, Mauricio Torres 9 May 2018

Pleistocene climates help scientists pick out targets for conservation in Brazil’s forests

Mongabay.com 8 May 2018

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