As trees fall, species that could yield lifesaving medicines risk disappearing before science can find them.

A historic billion-dollar rainforest pledge can collapse if global donors fail to act by December.

As South America turns right, Brazil’s vote could leave the Amazon without conservation leaders.

With 60% of the rainforest hanging in the balance, Brazil’s upcoming election could seal the Amazon's fate.

With 60% of the rainforest hanging in the balance, Brazil’s upcoming election could seal the Amazon's fate.

A Atlas Renewable Energy está planejando um data center de 1 gigawatt no município de Paracatu, que supera a capacidade de energia combinada de todas as instalações desse tipo atualmente instaladas…

The fund helped Brazil reach a 10-year low in deforestation, but conservationists are bracing for a potential sharp policy U-turn.

As water wells turn to dust, local leaders learn of the massive facility firsthand from reporters.

Regrowing Amazon forests face a quiet collapse if fast pioneer trees die without stronger successors.

A 1% increase in illegal mining led to a 24% spike in malaria cases among the Yanomami, prompting a new data-driven defense.

With an election looming, Amazon communities worry their safety will be traded for faster agribusiness growth.

Criminal groups use small-scale mining permits as a front for gold laundering while federal oversight fails.

SPANISH LOOKOUT, Belize — When the Mennonite community here purchased a property four years ago in the middle of the Maya Forest Corridor, a government-recognized stretch of land designed to connect…

Um livro que traz uma seleção de crônicas publicadas no blog Meia Encarnada, no ge.com, nos últimos doze anos, além de outros textos.

Amazon fishers fear a total ban on their most iconic catch could favor industrial farms over local communities.

Município carbonífero desenterra projeto para seguir com a exploração do carvão, apostando na adoção de tecnologias que ainda não existem

Millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest are newly at risk of being legally deforested, a new study estimates. The potential increase in deforestation comes as soy companies have terminated their…

On this week’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with features writer Ashoka Mukpo, who traveled to southeastern Liberia to investigate what satellite images indicated was a spike in…

Expelled loggers hope for a political shift to reclaim Indigenous land like bacteria adapting to an antibiotic.

Um livro que traz uma seleção de crônicas publicadas no blog Meia Encarnada, no ge.com, nos últimos doze anos, além de outros textos.

Amazon fishers fear a total ban on their most iconic catch could favor industrial farms over local communities.

For some of the world's rarest monkeys, the path to survival now runs through a simple network of ropes.

A food staple and once a common sight, the Amazon turtle is now officially endangered as its population halves.

Pink ipê trees grow taller and faster thanks to a microscopic boost from an ancestral formula.

Plastic pollution is among the gravest environmental crises facing humanity. Plastic production since 1950 has exceeded 8,300 million metric tons, with most plastic waste ending up in the environment,...

Pink ipê trees grow taller and faster thanks to a microscopic boost from an ancestral formula.

A vanishing road in the Xingu region exemplifies what is at stake in Brazil’s October election.

A dismissed pasture weed may be key to easing drug addictions, but a researcher is keeping it a closely guarded secret for now.

A river community in Pará uses ancestral secrets to beat the climate crisis one chocolate bean at a time.

O julgamento teve a repercussão geral reconhecida, então servirá de baliza para todos os julgamentos envolvendo crimes sexuais no País

BRASÍLIA — Illegal miners have adapted their tactics in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory as Brazilian authorities seek to remove all the illegal occupants from the Amazon land, according to a recent ...

Your refreshing smoothie bowl might be silencing the white-throated toucan and the razor-billed curassow.

Brazil's Supreme Court ruling revives a controversial Amazon railway and sets a precedent about protected areas.

Revistas humilhantes, detenções arbitrárias e constrangimento aos visitantes contrariam o espírito do torneio antes mesmo do primeiro jogo

Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI) in the Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor, one of the largest contiguous, intact forests in the Amazon and home to the world’s…

A rare hybrid population faces an oil frontier with a rescue plan that experts call insufficient.

Experiment shows the Amazon can recover after fires, but the new forest is a “poorer” version of its former self.

The agribusiness caucus is pushing restrictions on the technology that has helped halve deforestation since 2023.

The global craze for açaí is driving a plantation boom that leaves the forest’s original harvesters behind.

A strategic shift in law clears the way for a highway that scientists warn will push the Amazon to a tipping point.

Locals warned Belo Monte would kill the river, and now the plant faces a turning point as prophecies become real.

Hatchlings talk inside their shells to time their birth, but the roar of massive barges may soon drown out their sound.

Families awaiting land reform in the Amazon now face a surge in mining that can destroy their chance at a decent life.

Brazil bet big on a mega river dam using old data, but climate change is leaving its massive turbines high and dry.

Just three months ago, Brazil seemed close to winning the highest level of international trade protections for the country’s symbol and namesake, the Brazilwood tree (Paubrasilia echinata). On Nov. 26...