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Indigenous people protect some of the Amazon’s last carbon sinks: Report

Maxwell Radwin 19 Jan 2023

Venezuela’s Yapacana National Park suffering increasing mining deforestation: report

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jan 2023

Historic EU law against deforestation-linked imports ignores Brazil’s Cerrado

Alec Luhn 8 Dec 2022
Fire in the Amazon.

2022 Amazon fires tightly tied to recent deforestation, new data show

Sandra Cuffe 22 Nov 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

Big banks fund the heavy machinery used for Amazon deforestation, report says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Aug 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2021

Meet Magali, the conservation warrior rescuing Peru’s rainforest animals: Video

Liz Kimbrough 26 Nov 2021

Brazil leads Amazon in forest loss this year, Indigenous and protected areas hold out

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2021
Cattle ranch next to a recently deforested area in Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil. Photo courtesy of Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance).

New permits for Brazilian beef exports to US could increase deforestation risk: Report

Maxwell Radwin 27 Sep 2021

In Brazil’s Acre, smoke from fires threatens health, could worsen COVID-19

Liz Kimbrough 18 Aug 2021

A bad fire year predicted in Brazil’s Acre state. What’s to be done?

Liz Kimbrough 17 Aug 2021

More than 250 major fires detected in the Amazon this year, despite Brazil’s ban

Liz Kimbrough 3 Aug 2021

Protected areas keep adjacent lands safe, but face losing their own protection

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2021
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Brazil’s Amazon is now a carbon source, unprecedented study reveals

Liz Kimbrough 14 Jul 2021

Fire season intensifies in the Brazilian Amazon, feeding off deforestation

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2021
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

New areas of primary forest cleared in Brazil’s ‘lawless’ Lábrea

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jun 2021
Live hotspots in areas with Prodes 2019 and Deter warnings, in Colniza, Mato Grosso state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

The Brazilian Amazon is burning, again

Liz Kimbrough 3 Jun 2021
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

As 2020 Amazon fire season winds down, Brazil carbon emissions rise

Liz Kimbrough 16 Nov 2020

For Amazon indigenous facing COVID-19, distance to ICU beds poses dire threat

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2020
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A river runs through it — and keeps the Amazon’s bird species diverse

Claire Asher 24 Aug 2018

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