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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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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.