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Expedition reveals the amazing nocturnal fauna in the Amazon Rainforest

Suzana Camargo 17 Oct 2022

Feeding wild animals is a bad idea: The case of Belo Horizonte’s coatis

Augusto Gomes 14 Oct 2022
A jaguar swims across a river.

Community study sheds light on wild cat killings in Brazil’s central Amazon

Sean Mowbray 14 Oct 2022
A guigna.

Wild cats threatened by ‘underrecognized’ risk of spillover disease

Sean Mowbray 13 Oct 2022

As Brazil starts repaving an Amazon highway, land grabbers get to work

Caio Guatelli 13 Oct 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

Successes and struggles: Brazil’s 20-year Amazon reforestation carbon sink project

Marina Martinez 12 Oct 2022

In Brazil, a heavily fined firm is also accused of waging a ‘palm oil war’ on communities

Karla Mendes 11 Oct 2022

Amazonian river communities seek to boost hard-won land rights to fight loggers

Lais Modelli 11 Oct 2022

Mongabay probe key as Brazil court rules on palm oil pesticide contamination

Karla Mendes 7 Oct 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Ahead of election, deforestation increased in Brazil

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2022
Logging operation in the Amazon.

Brazil may fail Paris Agreement targets by 137% if Bolsonaro stays in office

Jaqueline Sordi 7 Oct 2022

Conservatives tighten grip on Brazil Congress, hampering environmental agenda

Jaqueline Sordi 5 Oct 2022
A Charonias theano butterfly

Trouble in the tropics: The terrestrial insects of Brazil are in decline

Jeremy Hance 5 Oct 2022
A man fishing in Brazil

Putting a price on water: Can commodification resolve a world water crisis?

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 30 Sep 2022
The Javari River where it forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Cutting down the Amazon does not build prosperity for most Brazilians

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2022

In Brazil’s Ribeira Valley, traditional communities combine farming and conservation

Sibélia Zanon 29 Sep 2022

Brazil 2022: Election, environment and the future of the Amazon

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 29 Sep 2022

The Fixers: Top U.S. flooring retailers linked to Brazilian firm probed for corruption

Karla Mendes 29 Sep 2022

In Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, deforesters foot the bill for political campaigns

Caio de Freitas Paes 28 Sep 2022
Indigenous groups participate in the Free Land Camp (ATL)

With rights at risk, Indigenous Brazilians get on the ballot to fight back

Beatriz Miranda 27 Sep 2022
Jair Bolsonaro with supporters

In the Amazon, Bolsonaro’s far right may retain power even if Lula wins

Jaqueline Sordi 26 Sep 2022

Reducing beef’s carbon footprint is key to achieving net-zero in Latin America and the Caribbean, new paper shows

Sarah Sax 26 Sep 2022
Vehicles on the Trans-Amazonian Highway

Road network spreads ‘arteries of destruction’ across 41% of Brazilian Amazon

Antenor Savoldi Junior 22 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022
Moisés and Joel Oliveira.

Fires in the world’s largest wetland turns Brazilian farmers into firefighters

Sarah Brown 20 Sep 2022

Fish return to Southern Brazil after trawling ban

Naira Hofmeister 19 Sep 2022
Global forest carbon map

New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity

Carolyn Cowan 19 Sep 2022

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022

European bill passes to ban imports of deforestation-linked commodities

André Schröder 15 Sep 2022
At the beginning of the pandemic, MST launched an ongoing national campaign to take food from the settlements to vulnerable populations in cities. Here, a farmer delivers food to the collection center organized by ELAA for people living in the outskirts of the state capital, Curitiba. Image courtesy of Wellington Lenon/ELAA.

‘Viable, just & necessary’: Agroecology is a movement in Brazil

Anna Lappé 13 Sep 2022

As Brazil ramps up rail projects, wildlife kills remain understudied

Dimas Marques 13 Sep 2022
Jair Bolsonaro

Bolsonaro trails in polls, but his base in Congress looks likely to persist

Sarah Brown 13 Sep 2022

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