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How an Indigenous family under siege became a symbol of resistance in the Amazon

As Brazil starts repaving an Amazon highway, land grabbers get to work

Road network spreads ‘arteries of destruction’ across 41% of Brazilian Amazon

Zero-deforestation commitments ‘fundamentally limited’ in tackling deforestation, study argues

Industrial mining’s tropical deforestation footprint spills beyond concessions

‘Brazilians aren’t familiar with the Amazon’: Q&A with Ângela Mendes

Healthy mangroves build a resilient community in the Philippines’ Palawan

Study tracks global forest decline and expansion over six decades

Nearness to roads and palm oil mills a key factor in peatland clearing by smallholders

In Sumatra, rising seas and sinking land spell hard times for fishers

Building Indonesia’s ‘green’ new capital could see coal use surge (analysis)

Delectable but destructive: Tracing chocolate’s environmental life cycle

No permit? No problem for palm oil company still clearing forest in Papua

Deforestation intensifies in northern Malaysia’s most important water catchment

Indonesia’s mangrove restoration bid holds huge promise, but obstacles abound

Palm oil producer mired in legal troubles still razing Sumatran forest

Brazil’s new deforestation data board sparks fear of censorship of forest loss, fires

Red-hot demand for ipê wood coincides with deforestation hubs in Brazil

With plantation takeover, Brazil’s Indigenous Pataxó move to reclaim their land

In Thailand’s deep south, a fight to stop quarrying in a global geopark

Habitat loss, climate change send hyacinth macaw reeling back into endangered status

Consumer countries mull best approach to end deforestation abroad

The war on journalists and environmental defenders in the Amazon continues (commentary)

Mahogany, a pillar of the rainforest, needs support (commentary)

Does citizen ownership of natural resources hold the key to realizing deforestation commitments? (commentary)

How Brazil is working to save the rare lion tamarins of the Atlantic Forest

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

Drivers of Colombia’s peacetime deforestation weave a complex web

Deforestation-neutral mining? Madagascar study shows it can be done, but it’s complicated

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Brazil bill seeks to redraw Amazon borders in favor of agribusiness

Beyond CO2, tropical forests a ‘cool’ solution to climate crisis, study finds

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