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Brazil marks borders for isolated Indigenous group in the Amazon after decades

Agents of Brazil’s Indigenous agency, FUNAI, spent 60 days in June and July 2026 physically marking the borders of the Rio Pardo Kawahiva Indigenous Territory. The 411,000-hectare area in the Amazon ...
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Brazil to revive highway project through Amazon amid concerns

Brazil will invest $75 million to pave a highway that cuts through the center of the Amazon rainforest. Environmentalists argue for strong protections to conserve the ecosystem so crucial to ...

Brazil Supreme Court Upholds Laws That Led to Downfall of Amazon Soy Moratorium

Brazil’s Supreme Court has upheld state laws denying tax incentives to farmers who adhered to the country's soy moratorium ...

Lula and Bolsonaro court women voters as Brazil election campaign kicks off

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his right-wing rival Flavio Bolsonaro kicked off their election campaigns ...
Newsday

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 ...

Key Amazon Cases Reach Brazil’s Supreme Court Following Lula's Defeats in Congress

Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous ...

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate approaches a historic low

Forest destruction fell to 2,874sq km, an area slightly larger than Luxembourg, in the 12 months through July. Read more at ...
Boston Herald

A gold-fueled mining rush scars Brazil’s Amazon, spiking deforestation and mercury risks

SAO PAULO (AP) — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury ...
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How only a few tree species drive Amazon forest recovery

When a destroyed section of the Amazon rainforest begins to recover, nature deploys only a few tree species, which can withstand poor soil conditions, blazing sun, and grow rapidly, a Brazilian study ...