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Rare Amazon dark soils could help forest restoration, study shows

Juliana Ennes 14 Jun 2023

The natural history of the Amazon Rainforest

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Jun 2023

Understanding the conventional economy of the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Jun 2023

Q&A with Sydney Possuelo, the most prominent specialist in isolated indigenous peoples in Brazil

Carolina Conti 13 Jun 2023

Rainforest cowboys: Rodeo culture sweeps the Amazon

Heinar Maracy 12 Jun 2023
More than 5,000 Indigenous peoples participated in the 2023 Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL) march in Brasilia on April 26, demanding the demarcation of Indigenous territories and the end of violence against Indigenous peoples. Image by Maiara Dourado / CIMI.

Indigenous groups turn to Brazil’s highest court to stop police violence

Aimee Gabay 9 Jun 2023

Expedition catches Amazon river dolphins to help save this iconic pink species

Kevin Damasio 9 Jun 2023
Timber in Pará state and other parts of the Brazilian Amazon can bypass regulatory permits, allowing illegal wood to be sold domestically and internationally. Federal environmental agencies play an essential role in preventing this from happening, experts say.

The political economy of the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Jun 2023

Fishers confirm scientists’ warning: Brazil’s Belo Monte dam killed off the river

João Paulo Guimarães 8 Jun 2023

A mega-highway threatens South America’s vulnerable Gran Chaco

Sarah Brown 8 Jun 2023

The geography of environmental degradation in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Jun 2023

Mechanized destruction of Brazil’s Amazon is rising, but not inevitable

Dimitri Selibas 7 Jun 2023
Soy field and cerrado / chaco / Amazon transition forest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

U.S. conservation investment routed to eucalyptus expansion in Brazil’s Cerrado

Shanna Hanbury 6 Jun 2023
Brazilian President Lula met U.S. President Joe Biden in February.

Boosted with fresh donations, Amazon Fund reboots stalled projects

André Schröder 5 Jun 2023
Yanomami Indigenous

Majority of Brazil’s Congress votes to restrict Indigenous land advances

Jenny Gonzales 2 Jun 2023

The counterstrike: Brazilian Congress moves to block Lula’s environmental agenda

André Schröder 1 Jun 2023

Drivers of environmental degradation in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Jun 2023
Leader Vanda Ortega, of the indigenous Witoto people

Indigenous land rights key to curbing deforestation and restoring lands: Study

Roxanne Hoorn 1 Jun 2023

Years of pioneering work make Brazil the model for reintroduction of jaguars

Suzana Camargo 1 Jun 2023

The state of the Amazon: Chapter 1 of “A Perfect Storm”

Timothy J. Killeen 31 May 2023

Borders between Mercosur countries have become a hub for trafficking agrochemicals

Aldem Bourscheit (Brazil) and Aldo Benitez (Paraguay) 30 May 2023

Agro giants buy grains from farmers fined for using Indigenous land in Brazil

André Campos and Naira Hofmeister from Repórter Brasil and Tatiana Merlino, João Peres, Leonardo Fuhrmann from O Joio e o Trigo 29 May 2023

A wild life studying the Amazon: Q&A with author Tim Killeen

Mongabay Latam 24 May 2023

Book: A perfect storm in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 May 2023

World Bank: Brazil faces $317 billion in annual losses to Amazon deforestation

Sarah Brown 19 May 2023
Cows.

A Twitter bot tracks meat production in the Brazilian Amazon

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 May 2023
A yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), known locally as tracajá, a species that is of cultural importance for the Juruna.

Second chance for Lula as controversial Amazon dam goes up for renewal

Dimitri Selibas 18 May 2023

A Guarani community brings native bees back in the shadow of São Paulo

Lais Modelli 18 May 2023
Lúcio Tembé, chief of the Turé-Mariquita village in Tomé-Açu, northeastern Pará.

Indigenous chief shot in head in Brazil’s ‘palm oil war’ region; crisis group launched

Karla Mendes 16 May 2023

Logging permit threatens Quilombola bioeconomic ‘paradise’ in the Amazon

André Schröder 8 May 2023

Not all parts of the Amazon will survive future droughts, study says

Maxwell Radwin 5 May 2023
CI-Brazil and partners mixing the muvuca seeds.

World’s ‘largest’ tropical reforestation project slowed by Covid, Bolsonaro, fires

Jeremy Hance 4 May 2023

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