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Giant catfish clocks longest ever freshwater migration

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Feb 2017

Birds wanted: Recovering forests need avian assist 

Mongabay.com 2 Feb 2017

Battle for the Amazon: As Sinop grew, the Amazon rainforest faded away

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Feb 2017

‘Revolutionary’ new biodiversity maps reveal big gaps in conservation

John Cannon 27 Jan 2017

‘Running out of time’: 60 percent of primates sliding toward extinction

John Cannon 19 Jan 2017

Is Brazil green washing hydropower? The case of the Teles Pires dam

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 18 Jan 2017

The end of a People: Amazon dam destroys sacred Munduruku “Heaven”

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 5 Jan 2017

Battle for the Amazon: Tapajós Basin threatened by massive development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 3 Jan 2017

Temer government set to overthrow Brazil’s environmental agenda

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 21 Dec 2016

Brazil’s dispossessed: Belo Monte dam ruinous for indigenous cultures

Zoe Sullivan 8 Dec 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016

Amazon oil spill impacts indigenous villages on Teles Pires River

Zoe Sullivan 21 Nov 2016

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, 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

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