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Ana Toni, CEO of COP30, photographed in June. Image courtesy of Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil.

As Brazil expands oil, COP30 head urges rich nations to phase out fossil fuels first

Karla Mendes, Shanna Hanbury 16 Jul 2025
Banner image of experts using NIR technology for laboratory analyses. Image by Miguel Monteiro.

‘Revolutionary technology’ uses scanners for easier species detection in the wild

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2025
The BR-319 highway

Amazon’s ‘tipping point road’ gets new push with ease on licensing rules

Rafael Spuldar 14 Jul 2025

Brazil’s Arariboia set to be the first Indigenous land with legal cattle

Karla Mendes 14 Jul 2025

Rising heat and falling yields plague an Amazon island near COP30 host

Anna Peres/O Liberal 14 Jul 2025
Plans to blast the Pedral do Lourenço rock formation in the Tocantins River have been suspended by a court. Image courtesy of Antonio Cavalcante/Ascom Setran-PA.

Brazil court halts plan to blast 35-km river rock formation hosting endangered species

Shanna Hanbury 10 Jul 2025
Some Amazonian communities have reported harvests declining by up to 80% due to El Niño.

Iconic Brazil nut crop plunges after extreme drought, skyrocketing prices

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes 10 Jul 2025
Mamirauá and Amanã sustainable development reserves. Image by Daniel Marques via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Community patrolling reduces crime numbers in the Amazon, study shows

Fernanda Biasoli 10 Jul 2025
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with his environmental and climate change minister, Marina Silva on his first day in office on Jan. 1.

Why is Lula still silent on Brazil’s ‘Bill of devastation?’ (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 8 Jul 2025
Latex collected from the trees is pressed and formed into blocks, which are easier to transport from the territory.

Indigenous rubber bounces back for Amazon conservation and higher income

Sarah Brown 8 Jul 2025

Meat giant profits from carbon market without halting deforestation

Bruna Bronoski, from O Joio e O Trigo 4 Jul 2025
An alert sign: a stranded marine specimen documented by IEPA scientists along the Amapá coast. The case is part of ongoing efforts to monitor aquatic fauna.

Seismic noise from oil companies threatens Amazon River Mouth marine life

Rudja Santos 4 Jul 2025
jaguar

Jaguar population doubles around Brazil’s Iguaçu Falls 

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jul 2025
The critically endangered Alta Floresta Titi monkey (Plecturocebus grovesi) crossing one of the bridges in February 2025. Image courtesy of NZCBI.

Endangered primates use new canopy bridges in a Brazilian Amazon city

Shanna Hanbury 1 Jul 2025
Person kneeling in gold mine extraction site

Organized crime & gold trade are increasingly connected, report shows

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Jun 2025

Brazil’s Indigenous Akroá Gamella reclaim and restore their land, one patch at a time

Felipe Duran 25 Jun 2025
Illegal gold mining inside the Munduruku and Sai Cinza Indigenous Lands

Nine takeaways on Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku lands

Aimee Gabay 23 Jun 2025

Checkout counter tech eases wildlife identification in the field

Miguel Monteiro 23 Jun 2025
Two Munduruku boys walk along a river in the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land. Image by Anderson Barbosa / Greenpeace.

Inside Brazil’s Amazon gold war

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2025
How manatees won over an entire village. Manatee Brazil

Brazil manatee hunters become advocates as village turns to ecotourism

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2025

In the Brazilian Amazon, sustainability policies clash with development goals

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Jun 2025

Brazil auctions off several Amazon oil sites despite environmentalists and Indigenous protests

Associated Press 18 Jun 2025
British journalist Dom Phillips on a 2022 trip to the Brazilian Amazon.

Finishing Dom Phillips’ posthumous book was ‘the hardest thing emotionally’ co-authors say

Karla Mendes 18 Jun 2025
Amazon rainforest. Credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal

Carla Ruas 17 Jun 2025
A coal miner walking barefoot through heaps of coal dust at a coal mine and processing plant, Jharkand, India. Image courtesy of Rajesh Kumar Singh / Climate Visuals Countdown.

At COP30 & beyond, the fight for climate justice must end corporate impunity (commentary)

Pablo Fajardo 17 Jun 2025
Large felines like jaguars need large areas to hunt and reproduce. Image courtesy of Steve Winter/Panthera

Protect one large forest, or many small ones? New study reignites conservation debate

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Jun 2025
Munduruku people from the Sawré Muybu village gather in an assembly to receive feedback from Fiocruz on the hair sample test results determining levels of mercury contamination in people. Image by Joao Paulo Guimaeres via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

After crackdown on illegal miners, Indigenous Munduruku still grapple with health aftermath

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes 16 Jun 2025
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Chinese President Xi Jinping greeted each other during a recent meeting where the two countries discussed the proposed Bioceanic railway. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/PR

Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon

André Schröder 16 Jun 2025

Artificial nests help a rare Brazilian parrot bounce back

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2025

New environmental licensing will build a power plant in the Cerrado and demolish a school

Guilherme Cavalcanti/Agência Pública 13 Jun 2025

Ahead of UN climate talks, Brazil fast-tracks oil and highway projects that threaten the Amazon

Associated Press 13 Jun 2025
The Nyamugasani River flows through the flood plains in the foothills of Rwenzori Mountains National Park, one of the sites supported by the CAPA initiative.

To survive climate change, scientists say protected areas need ‘climate-smart’ planning

Marina Martinez 13 Jun 2025

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