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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Beijing in May. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Brazil government.

Brazil & China move ahead on 3,000-km railway crossing the Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 21 May 2025
Goiano, in front, started the land reform movement and has been the subject of death threats and corruption claims.

Delay in land reform fuels new wave of settlers and violence in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 21 May 2025
Banner image of Max, a brown howler monkey, courtesy of Marcelo Rheingantz.

Brazil rewilds urban forest with vaccinated brown howler monkeys

Mongabay.com 20 May 2025
The proximity with non-Indigenous culture and lack of economic alternatives make some young Mundurukus turn to illegal mining.

From chickens to cassava, Brazil’s Munduruku seek alternatives to mining

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes 20 May 2025
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New forest loss data beef up Amazon deforestation case against Casino Group

Carla Ruas 20 May 2025

How extreme droughts could redefine the future of Amazonian fish

Tiago Mota e Silva 19 May 2025
The 113-million-year-old hell ant fossil found in Brazil. Image courtesy of Anderson Lepeco.

World’s oldest ant fossil found in Brazil, dating back 113 million years

Shanna Hanbury 15 May 2025

Brazil’s offshore wind farms could sacrifice small-scale fishing in Ceará

Lobato Felizola 15 May 2025
Forest fires in the state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon. Image © Victor Moriyama/Greenpeace.

Brazil antideforestation operation blacklists more than 500 farms in the Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 15 May 2025
How manatees won over an entire village. Manatee Brazil

How manatees won over an entire village

Julia Lima 14 May 2025

Rectifying the damage: environmental fines in the Brazilian Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 14 May 2025

Even in intact Amazon forests, climate change affects bird populations: Study

Suzana Camargo 14 May 2025

Traditional bug oil finds modern value through new research in the Amazon

Sarah Brown 13 May 2025
Amazon people in the BR-163 area, such as Mariana, face challenges from the economic model imposed by agribusiness, logging and gold mining. Image by Fernando Martinho.

Lack of funds, cattle ranchers challenge Brazil’s sustainable farmers

Mongabay.com 13 May 2025
Brazilian Indigenous lawyer Kari Guajajara. Image by USAID via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

‘We can’t talk solutions without understanding complexities: Kari Guajajara on Brazil’s Amazon

Latoya Abulu 12 May 2025

A rare jaguar rewilding story highlights obstacles to the big cat’s conservation in Brazil

Suzana Camargo 12 May 2025
Oil industry giants like Chevron, BP, Shell and TotalEnergies are planning to refit existing oil refineries or build new biofuel plants to produce renewable diesel.

As renewable diesel surges, sustainability claims are deeply questioned

Sean Mowbray 12 May 2025
Aftermath of the Mariana Dam collapse in Minas Gerais.

Report urges stricter mining standards to manage climate and social impacts

Aimee Gabay 9 May 2025
Sueli Maxakali in front of a reforested hill. Image by Xavier Bartaburu/Mongabay.

Global prize longlists Mongabay feature on Maxakali reforestation in Brazil

Mongabay.com 8 May 2025

‘Puma detectives’ highlight wildlife where Brazil’s Cerrado meets the Atlantic Forest

Letícia Klein 5 May 2025
A young river dweller docks on the bank of the Madeira River in the late afternoon, near the town of Borba, Amazonas. Image by Bruno Kelly.

Amazon people brace for a drier future along the endangered Madeira River

Kevin Damasio 5 May 2025
Marielle Ramires from Instagram

Marielle Ramires, Brazilian activist and environmental communicator, died on April 29th, aged 45.

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 May 2025

In the Pan Amazon, regulators struggle to punish environmental crimes

Timothy J. Killeen 2 May 2025
Located in the Amapá state, the second-largest red angelim ever found is 85.4 meters (280 feet) tall and has a circumference of 9.8 meters (32 feet). Image courtesy of João de Matos Filho / Prodemac.

Gold rush moves closer to Amazon’s second-tallest tree

Mongabay.com 1 May 2025
Jaguar siblings in Poconé, Brazil. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Study suggests there are more jaguars in the Amazon than previously thought

Shanna Hanbury 1 May 2025

Mongabay reports fuel petition to block US import of coffee tied to slave labor

Bobby Bascomb 30 Apr 2025
A towering tailings pile sits directly behind a residence in Poço Dantas. Image by Rebeca Binda.

In Brazil’s Jequitinhonha valley, communities share how to reduce lithium mining impacts

Amanda Magnani, Rebeca Binda 30 Apr 2025
eucalyptus forest

Eucalyptus for Brazil’s steelmaking dries out communities in Minas Gerais

Daniel Camargos, Emmanuelle Picaud, Simone Fant 29 Apr 2025
Pará Governor Helder Barbalho celebrates after signing the deal with the LEAF Coalition of corporations at New York Climate Week in September 2024. Image courtesy of SEMAS.

Brazil prosecutors dispute $175m Amazon Rainforest carbon credit deal

Shanna Hanbury 29 Apr 2025
Voluntarily isolated people in the Javari Valley in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: FUNAI.

Indigenous delegates at the U.N. raise alarm on isolated peoples in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 25 Apr 2025
Federal forces have been expelling illegal gold miners from protected areas like the Munduruku Indigenous Territory in Pará state. Image courtesy of the Federal Police. 

Amazon illegal miners bypass enforcement by smuggling gold into Venezuela

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2025
The pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor) is one of the world’s most endangered monkeys. Image courtesy of Diogo Lagroteria.

New refuge helps protect Amazon’s most endangered monkey, but gaps remain

Shanna Hanbury 18 Apr 2025

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