Confiscated illegally logged timber floats down the Guam river delta in Pará, Brazil. Photograph: Reuters/Brazil

Update: We wrote recently about the murder of Amazon rainforest activists José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Mario do Espírito Santo, who were murdered for speaking out against the illegal destruction of the forest by loggers and others.

Well, [...]

Environmentalist leader Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria, were murdered this week for speaking out about illegal land clearing in the Amazon.

They had reported illegal loggers to police and federal prosecutors, and that cost them their lives.

The number of murdered activists in Brazil is staggering. More than 1,150 rural activists have been [...]

A week after the disaster, rescuers mostly find bloated bodies, but there are also moments of joy.

Rafael Correia da Silva celebrated his 23rd birthday this week. He pulled on a pair of mudcaked wellingtons, filled his backpack with bottles of water and set off into the jungle to search for survivors of one of [...]