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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

Hundreds of new Amazon dams an “ecological experiment” on global scale

Julian Smith 27 Aug 2015

Tapajós and other Amazon dams not sustainable development say reports

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jun 2015

Videos reveal rare birds, wild monkeys, and jaguar family in oil-exploited park

Jeremy Hance 11 May 2015

Featured video: the Uncharted Amazon trailer

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2015

Photos: expedition to Amazon’s white sands may have found new primate

Jeremy Hance 24 Mar 2015

Photo essay: filming in the remote Amazon

Tristan Thompson 9 Mar 2015

Video: camera trap catches jaguar hunting peccaries

Jeremy Hance 26 Jan 2015

New tapir? Scientists dispute biological discovery of the century

Jeremy Hance 13 Nov 2014

Scientists uncover five new species of ‘toupee’ monkeys in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 2 Sep 2014

No longer ‘deaf as a stump’: researchers find turtles chirp, click, meow, cluck

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Jul 2014

Scientists: Neotropical otter should not be considered threatened

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2014

Camera trap captures first ever video of rarely-seen bird in the Amazon…and much more

Jeremy Hance 17 Jun 2014

After throwing out referendum, Ecuador approves oil drilling in Yasuni’s embattled heart

Jeremy Hance 2 Jun 2014

Of jaguars and loggers: new film to showcase one of the least-known regions in the deep Amazon

Jeremy Hance 2 Jun 2014

Oil or rainforest: new website highlights the plight of Yasuni National Park

Jeremy Hance 20 Mar 2014

Scientist discovers a plethora of new praying mantises (pictures)

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2014

Several Amazonian tree frog species discovered, where only two existed before

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 18 Mar 2014

Mother of God: meet the 26 year old Indiana Jones of the Amazon, Paul Rosolie

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2014

Amazon trees super-diverse in chemicals

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2014

New $20,000 reporting grant explores benefits of Amazonian protected areas

Mongabay.org 21 Feb 2014

Featured video: camera traps catch jaguars, anteaters, and a sloth eating clay in the Amazon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 13 Feb 2014

High-living frogs hurt by remote oil roads in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 14 Jan 2014

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2013

Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir

Jeremy Hance 16 Dec 2013

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