Sarah Brown

Sarah Brown

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Sarah Brown is a freelance journalist with a passion for the environment, sustainability and travel. Her work has been featured in the Evening Standard, Atlas Obscura and World Travel Magazine, among others. Follow her on Twitter via @BrSarahTr.

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Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024
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Experts call for urgent action as invasive species threatens Brazil mangroves

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024
An Amazonian manatee in a zoo.

As Amazonian rivers recede under drought, manatees are left exposed to poaching

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024

Eucalyptus expansion worsens droughts and fires in Brazil’s Cerrado, conservationists say

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024
Women in the São João da Ponta Extractive Reserve fish for crabs on the Mocajuba River in the Amazonian mangroves of northern Brazil.

Brazil’s ‘Mothers of the Mangroves’ protect an ecological and cultural heritage

Sarah Brown 19 Aug 2024
Luís Adriano Nascimento, chemist and vice-coordinator of the Laboratório de Óleos da Amazônia (Amazon Oils Laboratory, LOA), stands at a lab bench with a wide collection of Amazonian fruits and seeds used to make oils, biofuels and bioplastics.

Raw materials become high-value bioeconomy goods at an Amazon science park

Sarah Brown 6 Aug 2024

To host 2025 climate summit, Brazil will carve up an Amazonian reserve

Sarah Brown 23 Jul 2024
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Shrimp farms threaten Mexico’s mangroves and the jaguars that inhabit them

Sarah Brown 11 Jul 2024

Reintroduction project brings golden parakeets back to the skies of Brazil’s Belém

Sarah Brown 26 Jun 2024

In Brazil, conservationists try to save one of the world’s most endangered cats

Sarah Brown 13 Jun 2024

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

Sarah Brown 7 May 2024

Scientists collaborate to conserve the endangered Guiana Dolphins

Kashfi Halford, Sarah Brown 30 Apr 2024
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Latest Peruvian oil spill cuts Indigenous communities from life-giving river

Sarah Brown 25 Apr 2024

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

Sarah Brown 23 Apr 2024

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

Sarah Brown 19 Apr 2024
jaguar cub

Jaguar release offers a lifeline to Gran Chaco’s lonely big cats

Sarah Brown 27 Mar 2024

Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil

Sarah Brown 12 Feb 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

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

Sarah Brown 2 Jan 2024

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

Sarah Brown 15 Dec 2023
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Amazon deforestation declines but fossil fuels remain contentious, COP28 shows

Sarah Brown 7 Dec 2023

A Brazilian NGO restores widely degraded Atlantic Forest amid mining threats

Sarah Brown 6 Dec 2023

Prolonged drought brings unprecedented changes to Amazonian communities in Pará

Sarah Brown 6 Dec 2023

Quilombola communities take iron mine to U.K. court, alleging decade of damages

Sarah Brown 28 Nov 2023
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Jaguar haven in Brazil’s Pantanal burns amid ‘new normal’ of wildfires

Sarah Brown 30 Oct 2023

Lula partially blocks anti-Indigenous land rights bill, but trouble isn’t over

Sarah Brown 24 Oct 2023

Brazil strikes intruders of Amazon’s most deforested Indigenous land

Sarah Brown 11 Oct 2023
Ismael Nobre

Cacao and cupuaçu emerge as Amazon’s bioeconomy showcases

Sarah Brown 4 Oct 2023
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon

Sarah Brown 27 Sep 2023

Brazil Supreme Court quashes time frame proposal in win for Indigenous rights

Sarah Brown 22 Sep 2023
Pierre Friedlingstein is a member of the IPCC and a climate professor.

‘We don’t have much time’: Q&A with climate scientist Pierre Friedlingstein

Sarah Brown 13 Sep 2023
Laborers at Land Rover's wind energy project purposed for carbon finance in India.

Revealed: Why the UN is not climate neutral

Jacob Goldberg, Leopold Salzenstein, Sarah Brown, Shaz Syed 13 Sep 2023

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