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Reserves with roads still vital for reducing fires in Brazilian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2009

Revolutionary new theory overturns modern meteorology with claim that forests move rain

Jeremy Hance 1 Apr 2009

Amazonian region likely to become savannah due to burning, deforestation

Jeremy Hance 31 Mar 2009

Amazon rainforest in big trouble, says UN

Mongabay.com 19 Feb 2009

Beef consumption fuels rainforest destruction

Rhett A. Butler 16 Feb 2009

France’s Suez liable for illegal deforestation, “dynamite fishing” in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2009

Global warming may drive the Amazon rainforest toward seasonal forests rather than savanna

Rhett A. Butler 11 Feb 2009

Brazil to boost spending on infrastructure to counter economic crisis

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2009

Beef drives 80% of Amazon deforestation

Rhett A. Butler 29 Jan 2009

How to save the Amazon rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 4 Jan 2009

Amazon rainforest damage surges 67% in 2008

Rhett A. Butler 20 Dec 2008

Agricultural firms cut incentives for Amazon deforestation

Rhett A. Butler 2 Dec 2008

Amazon deforestation rises slightly to 4,600 square miles in 2008

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2008

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

Rhett A. Butler 17 Aug 2008

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon won’t increase significantly for 2008

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2008

Future threats to the Amazon rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 31 Jul 2008

Amazon timber industry declares ban on illegal logging

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2008

Amazon deforestation forecast for 2008 revised downward

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2008

Biofuels, food demand may doom tropical forests

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2008

Rainforests face array of emerging threats

Rhett A. Butler 15 Jun 2008

Cocaine use is destroying the Amazon rainforest, says new campaign

Mongabay.com 26 May 2008

Brazil will forge its own path for developing the Amazon

Mongabay.com 15 May 2008

Brazil’s environmental minister resigns after losing Amazon fight

Mongabay.com 14 May 2008

‘Soy King’ says Amazon deforestation could help solve global food crisis

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2008

Brazil prepares to launch attack on NGOs working in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 27 Apr 2008

Land invasions undermine Amazon forest law

Rhett A. Butler 3 Apr 2008

Amazon soy ban seems to be effective in reducing explicit deforestation

Rhett A. Butler 3 Apr 2008

Half the Amazon rainforest will be lost within 20 years

Rhett A. Butler 27 Feb 2008

Cheap ranch loans may be driving jump in Amazon deforestation

Rhett A. Butler 12 Feb 2008

How much would it cost to end Amazon deforestation?

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2008

7000 sq km of Amazon rainforest destroyed in late 2007 says Greenpeace

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2008

Amazon deforestation jumps in the second half of 2007

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2008

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