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Brazil Scientist Sacked After Row With President Bolsonaro Over Deforestation Data

The Wire Staff 04/08/2019

Rubbishing the data released by the National Space Research...

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What the UN Can Do to Stop Brazil’s Rapid Deforestation

Ash Murphy 17/07/2019

The UN Security Council has three main options: the...

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Climate Change: Six Positive News Stories You Probably Missed This Year

Rick Greenough, Anna Pigott, Daniele Malerba, Mike Wood, Parakram Pyakurel, Rory Telford and Stuart Galloway 31/12/2018

Climate researchers peer through the smog and highlight some...

A man reacts as an illegal logging camp is burnt during "Operation Green Wave" conducted by the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, to combat illegal logging in Apui, in the southern region of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, July 28, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Bruno Kelly/File Photo

Illegal Fishing, Harm to Amazon Forest Linked to Tax Havens, Finds Study

Alister Doyle 14/08/2018

The study follows the 2015 leak of the Panama Papers, which...

The tambaqui is the largest frugivorous fish in the Amazon. Credit: Rufus46/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

An Ancient Alliance of Fish and Forest in the Amazon Is in Danger

Bhanu Sridharan 22/07/2018

Some species of fish specialised in eating fruits and...

Aerial shots of some of the geoglyphs from the study. Credit: Gregorio de Souza et al, 2018

Communities Thrived in Parts of Amazon Basin Earlier Thought Unoccupied

The Wire Staff 05/04/2018

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence for 81 villages in the...

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Hydroelectric Dams Threaten Brazil’s Mysterious Pantanal

Lauren Crabb, Anna Laing, Bronwen Whitney and Carlos Saito 10/11/2017

There are already 38 operational hydroelectric plants in the...