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Extreme drought pushes Amazon’s main rivers to lowest-ever levels

Resilient and resourceful, Brazil’s illegal gold capital resists government crackdown

Itaituba: Brazil’s gold capital resists government crackdown

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

Nearly all Brazilian gold imported by EU is likely illegal, report says

Brazil launches ‘war’ on widespread fire outbreaks & criminal arsonists

Study shows most Amazon beef & soy demand comes from Brazil — not exports

Deal ends environmental agents’ strike in Brazil, but grievances fester

Amazon Fraud 101: How timber credits mask illegal logging in Brazil

Time for a copal comeback? The natural resin could boost Amazon’s economy

Gold mining in the Amazon has doubled in area since 2018, AI tool shows

Report reveals widespread use of smuggled mercury in Amazon gold mining

Environmental agents intensify strike amid record fires in Brazil

Fire bans not effective as the Amazon and Pantanal burn, study says

As wind, solar farms expand in Brazil, space for traditional communities shrinks

The harsh, dangerous gig of seizing thousands of illegal cattle in the Amazon

Verra suspends carbon credit projects following police raid in Brazil

Brazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay

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

Top brands buy Amazon carbon credits from suspected timber laundering scam

Apologies aren’t enough, Indigenous people say of Brazil dictatorship’s crimes

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

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

Brazil’s Cerrado is main beneficiary of 2021 pledge to end deforestation

Cerrado mammals change their habits to escape humans, study shows

Agribusiness bill moves to block grassland protections in Brazilian biomes

Lula’s deforestation goals threatened by frustrated environmental agents

Projected Pantanal waterway threatens protected areas, may render navigation impossible

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

Brazil’s environmental David fights Congress’s agribusiness Goliath: Interview with Nilto Tatto

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

Professional services abound for Amazon land grabbers seeking legitimacy

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