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Lula beats Flávio Bolsonaro to win Brazil's presidency again

Brazil holds about 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest, so who runs the country shapes the fate of the planet's largest tropical forest.

Source: El PaíS English

Election

Seventy million acres of the Amazon are now protected

That is roughly the size of Arizona, and conservationists hope the protected areas will link up into one connected 'link of life' for wildlife.

Source: Good News Network

Lula wins Brazil again but faces a hostile Congress

Amazon deforestation fell sharply in his last term, so how much a hostile Congress blocks him will shape the forest's future.

Source: BBC

Government · Election

Amazon burns as El Niño drought meets Brazil's election tensions, experts say

Drought makes the forest flammable, but people light the fires, and how land clearing gets policed often turns on who wins power in Brasília.

Source: El PaíS English