Under Lula, Amazon deforestation dropped to a 10-year low, but experts warn a victory by Senator Bolsonaro could reinstate policies favoring agribusiness and mining. @nandawenzel.bsky.social , @bykarlamendes.bsky.social and @lucas-berti.bsky.social on @mongabay news.mongabay.com/2026/09/tigh...

Tight Brazil election challenges fragile gains for Amazon conservation

As South America turns right, Brazil’s vote could leave the Amazon without conservation leaders.

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Four Amazonian nations are currently run by right-wing leaders favoring resource exploitation. With Brazil’s upcoming election, up to 95% of the Amazon could soon be governed by mining and agribusiness-friendly administrations. @lucas-berti.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

Brazil election could put 95% of the Amazon under right-wing governments

With 60% of the rainforest hanging in the balance, Brazil’s upcoming election could seal the Amazon's fate.

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In January 2027, five of the nine Amazonian countries could be run by right-wing or far-right parties, posing new risks to the world’s greatest rainforest, experts say. @lucas-berti.bsky.social on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/09/righ...

Brazil election could put 95% of the Amazon under right-wing governments

With 60% of the rainforest hanging in the balance, Brazil’s upcoming election could seal the Amazon's fate.

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REPUBLICAÇÃO | Data center pega de surpresa cidade mineira que sofre com falta d’água ⬇️ A Atlas Renewable Energy está planejando um data center de 1 gigawatt no município de Paracatu, que supera a capacidade de energia combinada de todas as instalações desse tipo atualmente instaladas no Brasil

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A Atlas Renewable Energy está planejando um data center de 1 gigawatt no município de Paracatu, que supera a capacidade de energia combinada de todas as instalações desse tipo atualmente instaladas…

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As Brazil approaches a pivotal presidential election, grantees of the Amazon Fund warn that a radical change in administration could derail its recent momentum, which saw annual financing quadruple. @nandawenzel.bsky.social writes on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/09/amaz...

Amazon Fund grantees fear a new funding freeze after Brazil’s election

The fund helped Brazil reach a 10-year low in deforestation, but conservationists are bracing for a potential sharp policy U-turn.

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The project risks depleting fragile springs in a municipality where around 80% of the territory faces water conflicts and demand already exceeds 100% of available groundwater reserves. Naira Hofmeister on @mongabay.com, in partnership with @intercept.com.br news.mongabay.com/2026/09/huge...

Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil

As water wells turn to dust, local leaders learn of the massive facility firsthand from reporters.

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A study in Global Change Biology shows that just 15 to 25 tree species make up nearly half of the trees and carbon stocks in regrowing Amazon forests. @nandawenzel.bsky.social reports on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/09/key-...

Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows

Regrowing Amazon forests face a quiet collapse if fast pioneer trees die without stronger successors.

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“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures & people who wish to live as machines.” ― Wendell Berry, "Life is a Miracle"

Researchers have found a direct link between illegal mining, miners’ routes, and malaria cases in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in Brazil. @nandawenzel.bsky.social reports on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/09/scie...

Scientists use mining data to build malaria alert system in the Amazon

A 1% increase in illegal mining led to a 24% spike in malaria cases among the Yanomami, prompting a new data-driven defense.

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Brazil is planning to dredge the Madeira River to boost grain exports despite recent fatal barge collisions and poor dialogue with local communities. @bykarlamendes.bsky.social on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/08/fata...

Fatal barge crashes fuel fear over Madeira River waterway expansion in Brazil

With an election looming, Amazon communities worry their safety will be traded for faster agribusiness growth.

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Federal prosecutors are suing the Brazilian mining agency for failing to monitor wildcat gold mines in the Brazilian Amazon. ANM’s top officials are also under investigation for receiving bribes to favor mining companies. @nandawenzel.bsky.social on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/08/braz...

Brazil's mining agency under fire over corruption and omission probes

Criminal groups use small-scale mining permits as a front for gold laundering while federal oversight fails.

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Who owns Belize's land? New records show Mennonite communities using collective trusts to buy large properties faster than competitors, while nearby residents survive on small plots. Learn more in this investigation by Maxwell Radwin for #Mongabay. 👇️ mongabay.cc/10eQ8x

Land records reveal how Mennonites are reshaping Belize’s forests

SPANISH LOOKOUT, Belize — When the Mennonite community here purchased a property four years ago in the middle of the Maya Forest Corridor, a government-recognized stretch of land designed to connect…

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Gasômetro. Beira-Rio. La Boca. Azenha. Buenos Aires. Rio de Janeiro. Cidreira. Montevidéu. Santiago. São Paulo. Cachoeirinha. Nápoles. Barranquilla. Assunção. Eis a cartografia de As ruas que guardamos. Suspeito que vocês vão gostar de caminhar junto. www.catarse.com.br/as-ruas-que-...

As ruas que guardamos

Um livro que traz uma seleção de crônicas publicadas no blog Meia Encarnada, no ge.com, nos últimos doze anos, além de outros textos.

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Brazil has listed the tambaqui, an Amazon fish, as vulnerable after projections indicated a 43.4% decline in its population. Without a recovery plan, a fishing ban could be imposed, raising economic concerns for small-scale fishers who rely on the species. @bykarlamendes.bsky.social reports.

Fishers fight for solutions as Brazil lists tambaqui as threatened

Amazon fishers fear a total ban on their most iconic catch could favor industrial farms over local communities.

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Comentário em matéria do @matinaljornalismo.bsky.social: Candiota quer R$ 20 milhões para criar Polo Carboquímico como “transição energética” www.matinal.org/reportagem/c...

Candiota quer R$ 20 milhões para criar Polo Carboquímico como “transição energética”

Município carbonífero desenterra projeto para seguir com a exploração do carvão, apostando na adoção de tecnologias que ainda não existem

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The collapse of the Amazon Soy Moratorium puts millions of hectares of rainforest at risk of legal clearing, a study warns. Researchers estimate the pact's end could drive 1.4 million hectares of direct deforestation over a decade, releasing carbon equal to Canada's annual emissions.

End of Brazil’s Soy Moratorium risks millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest: Study

Millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest are newly at risk of being legally deforested, a new study estimates. The potential increase in deforestation comes as soy companies have terminated their…

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In Liberia, a cocoa rush is turning rainforests into illegal plantations, risking EU trade bans under new deforestation rules. In this episode of Mongabay Newscast, @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social talks to @shokes.bsky.social about his latest investigation. 🎧️ Listen to the episode now! 👇️

Forests in Liberia are falling to cocoa, in half a year the EU could ban imports

On this week’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with features writer Ashoka Mukpo, who traveled to southeastern Liberia to investigate what satellite images indicated was a spike in…

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The Parakanã are reoccupying their territory after federal forces evicted around 3,000 invaders. But they are ready to come back if Brazil’s next administration carries a new anti-environmental agenda in 2027. @nandawenzel.bsky.social on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/07/indi...

Indigenous Parakanã fear election U-turn may spark new invasions in Brazil

Expelled loggers hope for a political shift to reclaim Indigenous land like bacteria adapting to an antibiotic.

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Percebo que é o momento de colocar na rua (ou nas ruas) a campanha para o livro com as melhores crônicas publicadas do Meia Encarnada. Também haverá outros textos, como alguns publicados no portal místico Impedimento. Vamos apoiar, gurizada. www.catarse.com.br/as-ruas-que-...

As ruas que guardamos

Um livro que traz uma seleção de crônicas publicadas no blog Meia Encarnada, no ge.com, nos últimos doze anos, além de outros textos.

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One of the most cooked fish in the Amazon, the tambaqui was included in Brazil's list of threatened species, triggering fear of losses from Amazon small-scale fishers who depend on the species for their livelihood. @bykarlamendes.bsky.social on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/07/fish...

Fishers fight for solutions as Brazil lists tambaqui as threatened

Amazon fishers fear a total ban on their most iconic catch could favor industrial farms over local communities.

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Project Reconecta installed eight rope bridges in a municipality in Brazil, and a 15-month study used camera traps to document thousands of arboreal wildlife adapting to new aerial crossings. Suzana Carmago on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/07/zero...

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

For some of the world's rarest monkeys, the path to survival now runs through a simple network of ropes.

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Despite protection and conservation efforts, cágado-iaçá’s populations over the past 36 years declined by more than 50% in Amazonas and western Pará states, according to official data. @bykarlamendes.bsky.social reports on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/07/braz...

Brazil lists the Amazon river turtle as endangered for the first time

A food staple and once a common sight, the Amazon turtle is now officially endangered as its population halves.

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Caralho, o Adnet conseguiu finalmente descrever e exemplificar o maior motivo de eu detestar o MVA. Eu nunca tinha me dado conta disso. A gente tem material para tacar fogo nos estádios, mas fica com aquelas musiquinhas pressão baixa.

Ancient Amazonian soil could act as a "biological engineer" for forest restoration. A new study shows Amazonian dark earth increases beneficial fungal diversity to improve seedling growth. To protect deposits, researchers are isolating these micro-organisms to develop sustainable bioinputs.

Dark earth: Ancient Amazonian soil can boost forest restoration, study finds

Pink ipê trees grow taller and faster thanks to a microscopic boost from an ancestral formula.

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Plastic pollution and drug-resistant infections are two of the biggest crises facing humanity. New research is finding deeply concerning links between them. My latest article for @mongabay.com explores how plastic pollution is enhancing antimicrobial resistance. 🧪 news.mongabay.com/2026/07/micr...

Microplastic pollution can fuel rise in antibiotic resistance, studies find

Plastic pollution is among the gravest environmental crises facing humanity. Plastic production since 1950 has exceeded 8,300 million metric tons, with most plastic waste ending up in the environment,...

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The investigation suggests Amazonian dark earth could work as a “biological engineer” by reshaping the soil’s microbiome, increasing beneficial fungal diversity and reducing pathogenic microbes that hinder tree growth. Evanildo da Silveira on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/07/dark...

Dark earth: Ancient Amazonian soil can boost forest restoration, study finds

Pink ipê trees grow taller and faster thanks to a microscopic boost from an ancestral formula.

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Recent satellite images show forest closing over the path of an illegal road that nearly severed the Xingu Socioenvironmental Corridor in 2022. Rafael Spuldar on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/07/crac...

Crackdown lets rainforest reclaim illegal road in rare win for the Amazon

A vanishing road in the Xingu region exemplifies what is at stake in Brazil’s October election.

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A new harvesting method allows an undisclosed Amazon plant to provide production of ibogaine, a psychedelic compound known for its largely unregulated and understudied properties in helping chemical addiction. Jenny Gonzales on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/06/secr...

Secret Amazon species may be new source of ibogaine for addiction treatment

A dismissed pasture weed may be key to easing drug addictions, but a researcher is keeping it a closely guarded secret for now.

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Traditional communities in Pará, Brazil’s top cocoa-producing state, are managing native species that naturally resist pests and extreme weather. @samcowie84.bsky.social and Cícero Pedroso on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/06/amaz...

Amazon floodplains cocoa offers a climate-resilient and sustainable chocolate

A river community in Pará uses ancestral secrets to beat the climate crisis one chocolate bean at a time.

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