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News Brazil » Amazonas: Fires in Brazil's Amazon dropped to historic low in 2025

News channel or source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/fires-brazils-amazon-dropped-historic-031359980.html
Published on: Monday 20 July 2026

Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon fell to a historic low in 2025 after peaking the previous year, according to a report published Tuesday.Fewer fires, it said, "interrupts a sequence of years of ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: Brazil lists the Amazon river turtle as endangered for the first time

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/brazil-lists-the-amazon-river-turtle-as-endangered-for-the-first-time/ar-AA27ZjM5
Published on: Wednesday 15 July 2026

By Karla Mendes A traditional food source for Amazonian communities, freshwater turtles have been included in Brazil’s list of fauna threatened with extinction for the first time. The cágado-iaçá, or ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: Collapse of Amazon soy pact to unleash new deforestation: study

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/general/collapse-of-amazon-soy-pact-to-unleash-new-deforestation-study/ar-AA284LJm
Published on: Thursday 16 July 2026

The collapse of a landmark Amazon soy pact will drive at least 1.4 million hectares (3.5 million acres) of extra deforestation in Brazil over the next decade, releasing carbon emissions equal to ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: Amazon's most-consumed fish carry microplastics: A basin-wide food security crisis

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/ecology/amazon-s-most-consumed-fish-carry-microplastics-a-basin-wide-food-security-crisis/ar-AA28nCm8
Published on: Tuesday 21 July 2026

Amazon microplastics contamination in fish has reached a crisis: half of jaraqui, Amazonas state's most-consumed freshwater fish, carry synthetic plastic particles in their guts. A July 2026 Mongabay ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: Brazil deforestation hits new low in Amazon

News channel or source: https://phys.org/news/2026-07-brazil-deforestation-amazon.html
Published on: Friday 10 July 2026

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to its lowest level in a decade in the first half of the year, according to official figures released Friday.

News Brazil » Amazonas: Brazil drought drops Amazon port river level to 122-year low

News channel or source: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/river-level-amazon-rainforest-port-hits-122-year-low-amid-drought-2024-10-04/
Published on: Friday 04 October 2024

Drought affects grain exports and essential supplies in Manaus Sixty-two municipalities in Amazonas state under emergency, over half a million affected Hydropower plants sapped, daylight saving time ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat

News channel or source: https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/brazil-amazon-rainforest-wildfires-el-nino-h84220
Published on: Friday 08 May 2026

SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: How Can Brazil’s Amazon Resist Longer Floods And Stronger Droughts?

News channel or source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwight/2024/09/15/how-can-brazils-amazon-resist-longer-floods-and-stronger-droughts/
Published on: Sunday 15 September 2024

To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to sample trees across the vast rain-forest. Climate extremes like floods and ...

News Brazil » Amazonas: Brazil reports drop in Amazon deforestation rates, pushing back on US tariff accusations

News channel or source: https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-rainforest-deforestation-us-tariffs-trump-9b6e95ab885a05a371f746ab7ae2c7b7
Published on: Thursday 11 June 2026

Brazilian officials have announced a significant drop in deforestation rates. Brazilian officials on Thursday thus pushed back on accusations used by the United States to justify tariffs on Brazil.