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Tiger cat released with satellite collar in Mirador State Park. Courtesy of Tadeu de Oliveira.

A new cat species was just discovered. Several more may follow

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2026
Orange-winged amazon (Amazona amazonica).

Brazil’s tropical forest fund races to raise $2.7 billion before deadline

Carla Ruas 24 Sep 2026

US contractors reportedly purchase tin from company accused of illegal Amazon mining

Mongabay 23 Sep 2026
The paving of the BR-319 highway would open the Amazon to further deforestation, affecting Brazil's rain cycle and endangering Indigenous communities. Image courtesy of the National Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT).

Brazil creates four Amazon reserves as plans to pave rainforest highway advance

Shanna Hanbury 22 Sep 2026

Tight Brazil election challenges fragile gains for Amazon conservation

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes, Lucas Berti 21 Sep 2026
Pirarucu fish on a boat on the Jurua River. Image courtesy of Joao Campos-Silva.

Community-based conservation is a good climate investment in Brazil & beyond (commentary)

Ana Cristina Barros, Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle, Katia Ribeiro Torres 17 Sep 2026
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, stands alongside commanders of the armed forces during the playing of Brazil's national anthem at a Soldier's Day ceremony at Army headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

Brazil election could put 95% of the Amazon under right-wing governments

Lucas Berti 15 Sep 2026

Indigenous leader Raoni receives palliative care in Brazil after cancer diagnosis

Associated Press 15 Sep 2026
The Amazon Fund finances a project by the Mamirauá Institute to support the sustainable management of pirarucu, one of the world’s biggest freshwater fish, in communities in the states of Pará and Amazonas. Image courtesy of Ricardo Oliveira/Mamirauá Institute.

Amazon Fund grantees fear a new funding freeze after Brazil’s election

Fernanda Wenzel 10 Sep 2026
Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil. Illustration by Giovana Abreu/Intercept Brasil.

Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil

Naira Hofmeister 10 Sep 2026

Riverside families in the Amazon change meals as mercury poisons staple fish

Karla Mendes 8 Sep 2026

New analysis maps mercury threat to 951 Amazon communities in three countries

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo, Daniela Quintero Díaz 8 Sep 2026
A female Adenomera varcena. Image courtesy of Borburema et al., (2026).

New-to-science Amazon frog stands out for its slow ‘lazy’ song

Shanna Hanbury 8 Sep 2026

Brazil’s Senate passes rare earth minerals regulation, paving the way for boosted exploration

Associated Press 4 Sep 2026
Researchers analyzed secondary forests in four municipalities in Pará state.

Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2026
Deforestation in the Chiquitania in 2021, the Bolivian region with the largest tropical dry forest in the Americas. Image courtesy of Eduardo Franco.

Planned Bolivia-Brazil highway threatens Chiquitania dry forest

Iván Paredes Tamayo 3 Sep 2026
The Olmeca oil refinery stands at the Dos Bocas port in Paraiso, Tabasco state, Mexico. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Mexico-Brazil oil deal raises concern for ecosystems and energy transition

Daniel Shailer 3 Sep 2026
Cattle graze on land that has been burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Pará state, Brazil. Image by AP Photo / Andre Penner.

Invaders storm Indigenous Amazon land, threatening isolated people

Aimee Gabay, Elisângela Mendonça 2 Sep 2026
Kerexu Laudiceia smoking a petyngua, the Guarani people’s sacred pipe. Image by Fellipe Abreu.

Tiago Karaí and Laudiceia Benites helped reclaim Guarani land. They died with their children in an accident last month.

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Sep 2026
A Yanomami Indigenous child plays among the wreckage of a Brazilian Air Force aircraft at the Surucucu airport. Image courtesy of Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil.

Scientists use mining data to build malaria alert system in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 1 Sep 2026

For 50 years, Philip Fearnside has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Aug 2026

7 Indigenous Guarani killed after loose grain trailer hits car in central Brazil

Shanna Hanbury 29 Aug 2026
A road in the Alto Rio Guamá Indigenous Territory on the border between Pará and Maranhão states. Image by AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd.

Under protection: The environmentalist’s widow in Brazil who had to disappear to survive

Felipe Sabrina 28 Aug 2026
The Belo Monte hydropower dam on the Xingu River in Brazil’s Pará state. Image courtesy of TV Brasil.

Brazil relaxes Belo Monte water rule amid El Niño-fueled Amazon drought risk

Shanna Hanbury 26 Aug 2026
Carl and Isabel Gakran, leaders of the Zág Institute, with their daughter Zágtxo, on the Ibirama-La Klãnõ Indigenous Territory. Image courtesy of Anderson Coelho.

Xokleng Indigenous people plant thousands of critically endangered pine in Brazil

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2026
Brazil’s unique data center boom rides on clean power despite social burden

Brazil’s unique data center boom rides on clean power despite social burden

Laís Martins, Naira Hofmeister, Francisco Amorim 24 Aug 2026
Wind energy surplus fuels unregulated data centers in Brazil's dry land

Wind energy surplus fuels unregulated data centers in Brazil’s dry land

Laís Martins 24 Aug 2026
The first sign demarcating the Rio Pardo Kawahiva Indigenous Territory. Image courtesy of FUNAI.

Brazil marks borders for isolated Indigenous group in the Amazon after decades

Shanna Hanbury 19 Aug 2026

Tapirs, bats and nests: How plastic infiltrates Amazonian wildlife

Tiago da Mota e Silva 18 Aug 2026

As an industry and a cooking ingredient, seaweed is gaining ground in Brazil

Letícia Klein 18 Aug 2026
Residents at Paraíso Grande riverine community, located 30 minutes by fast boat from the city of Humaitá, say the risk of accidents with big convoys increases during the Madeira River’s high-water season, when its banks are flooded.. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Fatal barge crashes fuel fear over Madeira River waterway expansion in Brazil

Karla Mendes 17 Aug 2026
A jaguarundi at a zoo in Germany.

Increasingly rare: Jaguarundi moves up a notch on the endangered species list

Sean Mowbray 17 Aug 2026

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