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Amazon journalist endures, despite decades of threats and harassment

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

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

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

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

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

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

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

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

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

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

Corruption guided award of huge Amazon dam contracts in Brazil

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

Cacao plantation ramping up forest clearing in Peru

Amazon deforestation speeding global warming

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

Featured video: the Uncharted Amazon trailer

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

Brazil confirms rising deforestation in the Amazon

Photo essay: filming in the remote Amazon

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

Ecuador sends aid money back to Germany over planned rainforest visit

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Edited Reality: What I Learned from Filming Eaten Alive

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

Indigenous leader murdered before he could attend Climate Summit

Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)

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

New laws may turn Brazil’s forests into mines

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

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

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