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Cat corridors between protected areas is key to survival of Cerrado’s jaguars

Romi Castagnino 16 Feb 2021
Mass grave in Parque Taruma cemetery in Manuas, Brazil in 2020. Photo credit: AFP

Zero convictions as impunity blocks justice for victims of Brazil’s rural violence

Daniel Camargos/Repórter Brasil 15 Feb 2021

‘What’s at stake is the life of every being’: Saving the Brazilian Cerrado

Peter Yeung 11 Feb 2021

Women and girls: Let’s transform the ocean by including everyone (commentary)

Leandra Gonçalves, Paulina Chamorro 11 Feb 2021

Agroforestry-grown coffee gives Amazon farmers a sustainable alternative

Sibélia Zanon 11 Feb 2021

As the Amazon unravels into savanna, its wildlife will also suffer

Luís Patriani 10 Feb 2021

Where does the name of the crab-eating fox come from?

Romi Castagnino 9 Feb 2021

Fruit-eating, seed-pooping animals can help restore degraded forests

Emily Harwitz 9 Feb 2021

Brazil flower-gatherers win acclaim: ‘Efficient, long-lasting, resilient’

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 8 Feb 2021

Brazil timber imports ‘may have breached US flooring giant’s probation’

Jack Davies 8 Feb 2021

Pandemic fails to slow agribusiness’s thirst for Cerrado’s water

Caio de Freitas Paes 8 Feb 2021
Manaus as seen from satellite. © Microsoft Zoom.

Brazil’s BR-319: Politicians capitalize on the Manaus oxygen crisis to promote a disastrous highway (Commentary)

Philip Fearnside; Maryane Andrade; and Lucas Ferrante 7 Feb 2021

Investigation: Dutch, Japanese pension funds pay for Amazon deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini from ((o))oeco 5 Feb 2021

A wet Amazon may be more resilient to a drying climate than thought: Study

Claire Asher 3 Feb 2021

Trader Cargill, pension fund TIAA linked to land grabs in Brazil’s Cerrado

Caio de Freitas Paes 3 Feb 2021

Study reveals how species once extinct in the wild have bounced back

Suzana Camargo 3 Feb 2021

‘Race against time’: Saving the snakes and lizards of Brazil’s Cerrado

Sharon Guynup 2 Feb 2021
Construction of Belo Monte Dam, on the Xingu river, Belo Monte Site. Altamira, Pará, Brazil. Credit line: © Carol Quintanilha / Greenpeace

Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam: Greenwashing contested (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 1 Feb 2021

Brazil guts agencies, ‘sabotaging environmental protection’ in Amazon: Report

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 1 Feb 2021
An atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), at the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA).

European farmed salmon sector to use only deforestation-free Brazilian soy

Genevieve Belmaker 29 Jan 2021
A fire in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

The Amazon lost an area of primary forest larger than Israel in 2020, new analysis finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Jan 2021

Lasers find forest gaps to aid tree mortality studies in Brazilian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jan 2021
Cesar, a Matses shaman. Photo courtesy of Acaté.

Investment in Indigenous peoples’ knowledge can drive their economic growth (commentary)

Tatiana Botelho 26 Jan 2021

Amazon is on the brink of turning into a carbon source, study warns

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2021

Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining

Sam Cowie 22 Jan 2021

In ‘dire’ plea, Brazil’s Amazonas state appeals for global COVID assistance

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 21 Jan 2021

Brazil’s collapsing health service, new COVID variant, raise Indigenous risk

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 20 Jan 2021

Brazil elections boost environmental violators to high office in Amazon

Aline Maciel, Bianca Muniz, Bruno Fonseca, Ciro Barros from Agência Pública 15 Jan 2021
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are the tropical forest storylines to watch in 2021?

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jan 2021

Indigenous agroforestry revives profitable palm trees and the Atlantic Forest

Xavier Bartaburu 13 Jan 2021

Patches of Amazon untouched by humans still feel impact of climate change

Dimas Marques/Fauna News 13 Jan 2021

Lack of protection leaves Spain-size swath of Brazilian Amazon up for grabs

Jenny Gonzales 8 Jan 2021

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