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The making of Amazon Gold: once more unto the breach

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 19 Feb 2014

Featured video: camera traps catch jaguars, anteaters, and a sloth eating clay in the Amazon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 13 Feb 2014

Gas company to drill in Manu National Park buffer zone, imperiling indigenous people

David Hill 4 Feb 2014

High-living frogs hurt by remote oil roads in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 14 Jan 2014

Brazil begins evicting illegal settlers from hugely-imperiled indigenous reserve

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2014

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2013

Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir

Jeremy Hance 16 Dec 2013

Ecuador’s government shuts down indigenous rights organization over oil battle

Jeremy Hance 10 Dec 2013

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2013

Could camera trap videos galvanize the world to protect Yasuni from oil drilling?

Jeremy Hance 7 Nov 2013

Scientist splits Amazonian giants into separate species

Jeremy Hance 23 Oct 2013

Map reveals gas company flying over Manu National Park

David Hill 17 Oct 2013

Featured video: 22-year-old produces documentary on the Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2013

Over 100 scientists warn Ecuadorian Congress against oil development in Yasuni

Jeremy Hance 3 Oct 2013

Has Brazil turned against its progressive environmental policies?

Jeremy Hance 30 Sep 2013

Video of Amazon gold mining devastation goes viral in Peru

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2013

Scientists discover that threatened bird migrates entirely within Amazon Basin

Jeremy Hance 11 Sep 2013

Scientists catch boa constrictor eating a howler monkey (photos)

Jeremy Hance 2 Sep 2013

Isolated Amazonian tribe makes another appearance in Peru (video)

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2013

Yasuni could still be spared oil drilling

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2013

Nutrient deficiency in Amazon rainforest linked to megafauna extinction

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2013

Forgotten species: the arapaima or ‘dinosaur fish’

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2013

Amazonian students help monitor threatened frog populations

Jeremy Hance 1 Jul 2013

Over 30 tons of explosives to be detonated in Manu National Park buffer zone

David Hill 24 Jun 2013

Bird extravaganza: scientists discover 15 new species of birds in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2013

11,000 barrels of oil spill into the Coca River in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2013

Scientists discover high mercury levels in Amazon residents, gold-mining to blame

Lacey Avery 28 May 2013

Mystery of Amazon River carbon emissions solved

Mongabay.com 21 May 2013

Peru delays oil drilling in the Amazon to consult with indigenous peoples

Jeremy Hance 20 May 2013

Crazy cat numbers: unusually high jaguar densities discovered in the Amazon rainforest

Zach Fitzner 16 May 2013

NGO: conflict of interests behind Peruvian highway proposal in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 16 May 2013

What if companies actually had to compensate society for environmental destruction?

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

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