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In the Pan Amazon, environmental liabilities of old mining have become economic liabilities

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Jun 2024

A Brazilian city restores its mangroves to protect against climate change

Letícia Klein 3 Jun 2024
Indigenous leader Paulo Paulino Guajajara shows a bullet shell in 2019.

Mongabay video screening at Chile’s Supreme Court expected to help landmark verdict in Brazil

Karla Mendes 31 May 2024

Rewilding efforts throw a lifeline to Brazil’s most trafficked endangered bird

James Hall 30 May 2024
Extensive cattle ranch Estância Bahia, in Água Boa, Mato Grosso state.

New bill to expand farmlands in the Amazon may derail Brazil’s green efforts

Fernanda Wenzel 29 May 2024

A fishing community celebrates its right to manage a Brazilian state park

Luís Patriani 28 May 2024
Some of the artists with the art installation

Mongabay investigation is turned into art for World Press Freedom Day event

Karla Mendes 27 May 2024
Recent deforestation for oil palm in the Amazon rainforest

Governments are ramping up actions to fight environmental crime across the Amazon, but is it working? (commentary)

Robert Muggah 27 May 2024

In Amazon’s tri-border Javari region, teens fall prey to drug gangs’ lure

Ivan Brehaut, Rodrigo Pedroso, Victoria Carlos 24 May 2024
Aerial view of unpaved roads dividing a soy monoculture from the native Cerrado, in the region of Ribeiro Gonçalves, Piauí, Brazil. Image courtesy of Adriano Gambarini/WWF-Brazil.

In Brazil’s Cerrado, aquifers are losing more water than they can replace

Kevin Damasio 24 May 2024

Collective effort monitors Amazon wildlife in heavily logged Brazil state

Beatriz Santomauro 24 May 2024

Global markets and their effects on resource exploitation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 May 2024

Top brands buy Amazon carbon credits from suspected timber laundering scam

Fernanda Wenzel 21 May 2024

Extractive industries look at degraded land to avoid further deforestation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 15 May 2024
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Despite drought, Amazon deforestation alerts hit five-year low

Mongabay.com 10 May 2024

Research shows the Caatinga is Brazil’s most efficient carbon capture biome

Adriana Amâncio e Rafael Dantas 10 May 2024

Brazil takes pioneering action — and a vaccine — to rewild howler monkeys

Bernardo Araujo 10 May 2024

Is the extractive sector really favorable for the Pan Amazon’s economy?

Timothy J. Killeen 8 May 2024

Secrets from the rainforest’s past uncovered in Amazonian backyards

Carolina Pinheiro 8 May 2024

Indigenous leader’s killer is convicted in Brazil, but tensions over land remain

Sarah Brown 7 May 2024
Cattle in a deforested patch of Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure

Liz Kimbrough 7 May 2024

‘Our rights are on trial in Brazil’: Interview with Indigenous movement pioneer Brasílio Priprá

Amanda Magnani 6 May 2024

New ban threatens traditional fishers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state

João Paulo Guimarães 6 May 2024
city view

In Brazil, half a century of salt mining sinks a city, displacing thousands

Peter Speetjens 6 May 2024

State management and regulation of extractive industries in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 2 May 2024

Education & research bring Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction

Sarah Brown (words) & Kashfi Halford (video) 30 Apr 2024

Apologies aren’t enough, Indigenous people say of Brazil dictatorship’s crimes

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Apr 2024

Scientists collaborate to conserve the endangered Guiana Dolphins

Kashfi Halford, Sarah Brown 30 Apr 2024

Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2024

Goldman Prize honors Brazilian investigation linking JBS & deforestation

André Schröder 29 Apr 2024

Afro-Brazilian communities fight a rain of pesticides & the company behind it

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 24 Apr 2024

Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests

Sarah Brown 23 Apr 2024

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