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Amazonian bat identification takes flight with new interactive guide

Claire Salisbury 22 Sep 2016

Scientists say Amazon biodiversity could help fuel Fourth Industrial Revolution

Mike Gaworecki 20 Sep 2016

Introducing the Mongabay Newscast

Mike Gaworecki 20 Sep 2016

Global brands’ beef is putting South America’s tropical forests at risk: report

Mike Gaworecki 13 Sep 2016

Raging Amazon forest fires threaten uncontacted indigenous tribe

Mike Gaworecki 23 Aug 2016

Climate change pledges not nearly enough to save tropical ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Using Big Data to combat the illegal timber trade in Brazil

Mike Gaworecki 10 Aug 2016
Etnias, a 620-foot long mural in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, representing indigenous people from five continents by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra. The mural was commissioned for the Olympics. Photo by Agência Brasil Fotografias.

Olympics to begin amid rising violence against Brazil’s indigenous people

Sandra Cuffe 4 Aug 2016

NASA images show the Amazon could be facing an intense wildfire season this year

Mike Gaworecki 15 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

Even reduced-impact logging in the Amazon may be unsustainable

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2016

Illegal gold mining causing mercury contamination in indigenous groups

Carolina Torres 7 Jul 2016

Western Amazonian and Andean forests don’t follow the ecosystem “rules” — here’s why that’s important

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jun 2016

Forest degradation in Brazil can have just as drastic an impact on biodiversity as deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jun 2016

Search warrant executed at Global Plywood over alleged Lacey Act violations

Mike Gaworecki 20 Jun 2016

Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land

Sue Branford 6 Jun 2016

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Claire Salisbury 6 Jun 2016

Peruvian Amazon will get wetter and experience more severe floods, threatening wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 11 Feb 2016

New deforestation hotspot threatens southern Peru’s tremendous biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 2 Feb 2016

Alarming proof of underreported bushmeat crisis in heart of Amazonia

Chaney Giordano 19 Jan 2016

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

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jan 2016

Gold mining revs up, eats away more Peruvian rainforest

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Jan 2016

Here are the top happy environmental stories of 2015

Mike Gaworecki 31 Dec 2015

Deforestation in Colombia up nearly 20 percent last year, but down in the Colombian Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 26 Nov 2015

Researchers in Peru capture some of the Amazon’s rarest and most elusive wildlife on video

Mike Gaworecki 23 Nov 2015

More than half of the Amazon’s tree species may be threatened with extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Nov 2015

Increased deforestation in the Amazon could mean far less rainfall

Mike Gaworecki 17 Nov 2015

Key forest countries’ climate pledges fall short on emissions from land use and deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 13 Nov 2015

Reforestation contributed more than $5 billion to Brazil’s economy

Mike Gaworecki 6 Nov 2015

How can a bat survive deforestation? Be small, mobile, and vegetarian

Sophie Furnival 2 Nov 2015

More drought, floods predicted for the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2015

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

Apoorva Joshi 9 Oct 2015

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