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A NASA satellite image shows the plume of tailings from the Fundão dam collapse reaching the Atlantic through the mouth of the Rio Doce, in late 2015.

Brazil reopens fishing at the mouth of the Rio Doce, ten years after the Fundão dam collapse

Land cleared and prepared for cattle or monoculture near Porto Velho, in Rondônia, in August 2020.

Amazon deforestation falls 41.8% to 3,335 sq km, the lowest in the series that began in 1988

An area of forest felled and burned in the rural zone of Apuí, in Amazonas state, in August 2020.

Farming covers 30.5% of the land ringing the Amazon's protected areas, and has grown 561% there in 41 years

A street thermometer on a day of intense heat in Rio de Janeiro

State of the Global Climate 2025

The last decade was the hottest since measurements began, says the UN climate agency