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Mouth of the Amazon oil exploration clashes with Lula’s climate promises
Sarah Brown
28 Apr 2023
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Ecuadorian farmers protest against a new environmental consultation process and an open-pit mine
Kimberley Brown, Victor Mendez
12 Dec 2023
Mouth of the Amazon oil exploration clashes with Lula’s climate promises
Sarah Brown
28 Apr 2023
Electricity day and night: Solar power is changing isolated Amazon communities
Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie and Avener Prado
6 Feb 2023
Road network spreads ‘arteries of destruction’ across 41% of Brazilian Amazon
Antenor Savoldi Junior
22 Sep 2022
‘Lost’ Amazonian cities hint at how to build urban landscapes without harming nature
Kimberley Brown
15 Jun 2022
Making room in the Atlantic Forest for the largest primate in the Americas
Bernardo Araújo and Duda Menegassi for ((o))eco
30 Mar 2022
New transport infrastructure is opening the Amazon to global commerce
Timothy J. Killeen
27 Sep 2021
As illegal logging route in Peru nears Brazil, Indigenous groups warn of calamity
Ana Ionova
9 Sep 2021
Planned Brazil-Peru highway threatens one of Earth’s most biodiverse places
Fabiano Maisonnave
22 Jul 2021
Amazon dams: No clean water, fish dying, then the pandemic came
Tiffany Higgins
23 Jun 2021
Freight train project that railroads Indigenous rights still on track
Jennifer Ann Thomas
16 Mar 2021
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
Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam: Greenwashing contested (commentary)
Philip M. Fearnside
1 Feb 2021
Traditional and Indigenous peoples ‘denounce’ planned Amazon railway
Thais Borges and Sue Branford
23 Dec 2020
Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam
Sue Branford and Maurício Torres
22 Dec 2020
Historical analysis: The Amazon’s mineral wealth — curse or blessing?
Thais Borges and Sue Branford
21 Dec 2020
Belo Monte dam’s water demands imperil Amazon communities, environment
Tiffany Higgins
16 Dec 2020
Brazilians impacted by mining assert: ‘Genocide legalized by the state’
Thais Borges and Sue Branford
10 Dec 2020
Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park
Ana Ionova
3 Dec 2020
French Guiana soy biofuel power plants risk massive Amazon deforestation
Justin Catanoso
2 Dec 2020
Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)
Philip M. Fearnside; Lucas Ferrante; Aurora M. Yanai; and Marcos Antonio Isaac Júnior
24 Nov 2020
Multiplying Amazon river ports open new Brazil-to-China commodities routes
Manuela Andreoni; Diálogo Chino
19 Nov 2020
Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on
Ana Ionova
17 Nov 2020
Brazil’s Bem Querer dam: An impending Amazon disaster (commentary)
Philip M. Fearnside
16 Nov 2020
BR-319: The beginning of the end for Brazil’s Amazon forest (commentary)
Philip M. Fearnside
3 Nov 2020
Long entrenched Brazilian military mindset is key to Amazon policy: Expert
Peter Speetjens
26 Oct 2020
Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)
Philip M. Fearnside
22 Oct 2020
Alcoa vs. the Amazon: How the ribeirinhos won their collective land rights
Thais Borges and Sue Branford
2 Oct 2020
Bailique: Why these islands in the Amazon Delta are falling into pieces
Luís Patriani (text) and Mauricio de Paiva (photos)
24 Sep 2020
Mercury from gold mining contaminates Amazon communities’ staple fish
Fernanda Wenzel
3 Sep 2020
Infrastructure plans imperil Latin America’s forests: Analysis
Mongabay.com
2 Sep 2020
Brazil green recovery plan could boost economy, add jobs, cut emissions: Report
Shanna Hanbury
27 Aug 2020
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