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CRabin_Pinto_2012 Lúcio Flávio Pinto at home in 2012. Photo courtesy of Lúcio Flávio Pinto.

Amazon journalist endures, despite decades of threats and harassment

Cláudio Rabin 31 Mar 2016

BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

Sue Branford 29 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #4: Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle

Sue Branford 24 Mar 2016

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #3: Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business

Sue Branford 16 Mar 2016

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

Sue Branford 14 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #2: Newly created conservation unit could push long-time residents from their lands

Sue Branford 11 Mar 2016

Giant development bank’s social and environmental safeguards called into question by critics

Sue Branford 9 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #1: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford 4 Mar 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Benjamin Blocksom translator, Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Guilherme Rosa from Repórter Brasil, Benjamin Blocksom translator 8 Feb 2016

Is intensification helping the cattle industry go Amazon deforestation-free?

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jan 2016

Corruption guided award of huge Amazon dam contracts in Brazil

Sue Branford 13 Jan 2016

After years of struggle and bloodshed, Peruvian community wins back its land

Apoorva Joshi 9 Oct 2015

Cacao plantation ramping up forest clearing in Peru

John Cannon 9 Sep 2015

Amazon deforestation speeding global warming

Mike Gaworecki 27 May 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

Brazil confirms rising deforestation in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Mar 2015

Photo essay: filming in the remote Amazon

Tristan Thompson 9 Mar 2015

The Amazon’s oil boom: concessions cover a Chile-sized bloc of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2015

Ecuador sends aid money back to Germany over planned rainforest visit

Jeremy Hance 23 Dec 2014

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler 23 Dec 2014

Edited Reality: What I Learned from Filming Eaten Alive

Paul Rosolie 22 Dec 2014

Indigenous communities ‘among the very few best protectors’ of Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 12 Dec 2014

Indigenous leader murdered before he could attend Climate Summit

Jeremy Hance 8 Dec 2014

Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

Threatened indigenous forests store more than half the Amazon’s carbon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Dec 2014

New laws may turn Brazil’s forests into mines

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 2014

Daring activists use high-tech to track illegal logging trucks in the Brazilian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2014

‘River wolves’ recover in Peruvian park, but still remain threatened inside and out (photos)

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2014

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