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New report: Brazil’s Cerrado could sidestep conversion for agriculture

John Cannon 13 Nov 2016

Thirst for coltan, gold threatens Venezuelan forests, indigenous lands

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Oct 2016

Quantifying the ecological impacts of the 20th century trade in Amazonian furs

Mike Gaworecki 25 Oct 2016
Tiputini River in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadoran Amazon. Photo by Jeremy Hance

Exclusive: New satellite images show Ecuador drilling in Yasuni’s ITT

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2016

Brazil pledges to cut carbon, but government policies say otherwise

Jenny Gonzales 6 Oct 2016

Hydropower threatens Bolivian indigenous groups and national park

Eduardo Franco Berton/RAI 5 Oct 2016

U.S. imports of Amazon crude oil driving expansion of oil operations

Mike Gaworecki 30 Sep 2016

Amazon radio network unites regional opposition to Tapajós basin dams

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2016

Scientists say Amazon biodiversity could help fuel Fourth Industrial Revolution

Mike Gaworecki 20 Sep 2016

Operation license for Amazon’s Belo Monte mega-dam suspended

Zoe Sullivan 13 Sep 2016

Belo Monte dam compensation inadequate, say traditional fisherfolk

Zoe Sullivan 9 Sep 2016

Protected areas are effective conservation tools, but even they can’t keep out rising temperatures

Mike Gaworecki 30 Aug 2016

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Sue Branford 26 Aug 2016

Nixed Bolivian highway offers environmental lessons to big Brazil bank

Ana Rosa de Lima and Alexandra Ellerbeck 24 Aug 2016

Dams inevitably result in species decline, losses on reservoir islands

Claire Salisbury 23 Aug 2016

Promised US$1 billion in Belo Monte dam compensation largely unpaid?

Carolina Torres 12 Aug 2016
Google Earth image showing the site for the São Luiz do Tapajós dam.

Environmental licence for São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam denied

Sue Branford 4 Aug 2016

Tapajós dams may bring fish kills, species loss, mercury contamination

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 2 Aug 2016

Study: Drought impedes tree growth, shuts down Amazon carbon sink

Claire Asher 21 Jul 2016

Scientists compile list of all known Amazon tree species, say it could take three centuries to find the rest

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jul 2016

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Sue Branford 13 Jul 2016

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

Claire Salisbury 21 Jun 2016

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Claire Salisbury 6 Jun 2016

Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation

Claire Salisbury 13 May 2016

Conventional survey techniques underestimate Amazon biodiversity: report

Mike Gaworecki 25 Apr 2016

Eight newly discovered species of whip spiders could soon become extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Feb 2016

Over-hunting’s surprising connection to global warming

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jan 2016

Scientists sound alarm over hydropower’s impacts on tropical fish biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2016

Here are the top happy environmental stories of 2015

Mike Gaworecki 31 Dec 2015

Researchers in Peru capture some of the Amazon’s rarest and most elusive wildlife on video

Mike Gaworecki 23 Nov 2015

A tiny new catfish for the Amazon Basin

Neelam Pereira 3 Sep 2015

400+ dams could irrevocably harm Amazon ecology — but solutions exist

Julian Smith 28 Aug 2015

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