Rainforests and Brazil News

RSS
2536 stories

A tale of two maps: Brazilian state won’t use new atlas to close Cerrado deforestation loophole

Brendan Borrell 13 Apr 2015

Russia and Canada lead the world in forest loss in 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Apr 2015

Illegal deforestation driven by EU appetite for beef, palm oil, soy, say new reports

Mike Gaworecki 1 Apr 2015

Archer Daniels Midland to demand suppliers stop chopping down forests

Mongabay.com 31 Mar 2015

World’s fragmented forests are deteriorating

Loren Bell 24 Mar 2015

Seeing the trees but not the forest (commentary)

Kenneth G. Macdicken 20 Mar 2015

Brazil confirms rising deforestation in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Mar 2015

Newly discovered Brazilian bird may number fewer than 10 individuals

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Mar 2015

Endangered forests shrink as demand for soy rises

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 10 Mar 2015

Newly described monkey species found in threatened Amazon forest

Mike Gaworecki 6 Mar 2015

Colombia proposes protected corridor across South America

Mike Gaworecki 3 Mar 2015

Biofuels are bad news for forests, climate, food security, says report

Mike Gaworecki 27 Feb 2015

One of Brazil’s rarest primates still holds out in single patch of rainforest

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 26 Feb 2015

Brazil arrests ‘Amazon’s biggest destroyer’

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

Dams or indigenous land: the battle over the Munduruku frontier

Ana Aranha 20 Feb 2015

Exclusive: Funai confirms that land threatened by dam projects belongs to indigenous tribe

Ana Aranha 19 Feb 2015

Brazilian indigenous populations grow quickly after first contact devastation

Caitlin E. Williamson 18 Feb 2015

Drones to scan the Amazon rainforest for hidden civilizations

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2015

Ranking the best and worst companies in terms of deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Feb 2015

The Amazon’s oil boom: concessions cover a Chile-sized bloc of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2015

Financial pledges for REDD+ slow to be disbursed, finds report

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2015

Brazil’s soy moratorium dramatically reduced Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2015

Road building spree hurts Amazon birds

Brittany Stewart 14 Jan 2015

Deforestation climbing – along with fears – in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jan 2015

Rainforests: 10 things to watch in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2015

2014: the year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2014

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2014

False victories for sustainability – Amazonian Hydropower

Jose Hong 9 Dec 2014

Threatened indigenous forests store more than half the Amazon’s carbon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Dec 2014

Amazon deforestation in Brazil drops 18% in 2013/2014

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Nov 2014

Rising deforestation, fossil fuels use drive Brazil’s emissions 8% higher

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Nov 2014

you're currently offline