Alexandre de Santi

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Brazil Editor - English
Journalist since 1999, based in Brazil. Co-author of three books. Deputy Editor of The Intercept Brasil for four years, including the Vaza Jato period.

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170 stories

2 years after Bruno & Dom’s murders, Amazon region still rife with gangs

Jaqueline Sordi 10 Jun 2024

Brazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay

Fernanda Wenzel 7 Jun 2024
Extensive cattle ranch Estância Bahia, in Água Boa, Mato Grosso state.

New bill to expand farmlands in the Amazon may derail Brazil’s green efforts

Fernanda Wenzel 29 May 2024

In Amazon’s tri-border Javari region, teens fall prey to drug gangs’ lure

Ivan Brehaut, Rodrigo Pedroso, Victoria Carlos 24 May 2024

Top brands buy Amazon carbon credits from suspected timber laundering scam

Fernanda Wenzel 21 May 2024

Bird populations are mysteriously declining at an Amazon park in Ecuador & beyond

Bernardo Araujo 16 May 2024

Indigenous leader’s killer is convicted in Brazil, but tensions over land remain

Sarah Brown 7 May 2024

New ban threatens traditional fishers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state

João Paulo Guimarães 6 May 2024

Goldman Prize honors Brazilian investigation linking JBS & deforestation

André Schröder 29 Apr 2024

Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests

Sarah Brown 23 Apr 2024
A cattle ranch in a deforeated area.

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2024

Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state

Sarah Brown 19 Apr 2024
Mercury being used to agglomerate gold.

Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Apr 2024

A short walk through Amazon time: Interview with archaeologist Anna Roosevelt

Peter Speetjens 10 Apr 2024

Agribusiness bill moves to block grassland protections in Brazilian biomes

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Mar 2024

How to reward tropical forest conservation: Interview with Tasso Azevedo

Jenny Gonzales 22 Mar 2024
Brazilian environmental specialists have been on strike since early January, demanding better salaries, a risk bonus and a new public tender for the category.

Lula’s deforestation goals threatened by frustrated environmental agents

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Mar 2024

Fanned by El Niño, megafires in Brazil threaten Amazon’s preserved areas

André Schröder 18 Mar 2024
Inauguration of minister Flávio Dino as minister of the STF.

Brazil’s Amazonian states push for court reforms in bid for justice

Luiz Antônio Araujo 14 Mar 2024

Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state

Sam Cowie and Rodrigo Pedroso and Avener Prado 12 Mar 2024

Study points to which Amazon regions could reach tipping point & dry up

Fernanda Wenzel 29 Feb 2024
A boat carrying potable water from Macapá city, Amapá’s capital, by the government is stranded because of the siltation of the Amazon River in front of Livramento community.

Locals at the mouth of the Amazon River get a salty taste of climate change

Rodrigo Pedroso, Rudja Santos 26 Feb 2024
A harvester harvesting soy in Brazil.

Meet the think tank behind the agribusiness’ legislative wins in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jan 2024
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

Grassroots efforts and an Emmy-winning film help Indigenous fight in Brazil

Sarah Brown 29 Jan 2024

Climate change made 2023 Amazon drought 30 times more likely, scientists say

Carla Ruas 26 Jan 2024

Lula’s ambitious green agenda runs up against Congress’s agribusiness might

André Schröder 25 Jan 2024
Researcher Guilherme Cabral

Why the Amazon’s small streams have a major impact on its grand rivers

Letícia Klein/Ambiental Media 18 Jan 2024

Amazon chocolatiers: Biofactory offers ‘new way of living’ for forest communities

Sarah Brown 2 Jan 2024

With half its surface water area lost, an Amazonian state runs dry

Amanda Magnani 26 Dec 2023

Outcry as Brazil Congress overrides president to revive anti-Indigenous law

Sarah Brown 15 Dec 2023

Prolonged drought brings unprecedented changes to Amazonian communities in Pará

Sarah Brown 6 Dec 2023

Certificate of origin for Acre’s açaí is a boost for the Amazonian superfood

Tácita Muniz 5 Dec 2023

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