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Brazil boycotts OAS meeting after sharp human rights rebuke over giant Amazon dam

Mongabay.com 27 Oct 2011

Tribal leader to the UN: Indigenous peoples of the Amazon are in danger

Almir Surui Narayamoga Of The Surui Tribe 22 Sep 2011

Scientists discover massive underground river 13,000 feet beneath the Amazon

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2011

Protesters demand end to controversial Amazon dam

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2011

Amazon rainforest communities added to Google Street View

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2011

Last chance to see: the Amazon’s Xingu River

Jeremy Hance 15 Jun 2011

Brazil’s shame

Rhett A. Butler 3 Jun 2011

Photos: two new freshwater stingrays discovered in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2011

Despite fierce opposition, work begins on Belo Monte dam

Jeremy Hance 27 Jan 2011

Marathon swimmer: an interview with the first man to swim the length of the Amazon

Rhett A. Butler 23 Jan 2011

Brazil’s environment chief resigns over controversial Amazon dam

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2011

Renewed conflict between tribes and oil companies looms in Peru

Emily Kirkland 6 Jan 2011

Lack of schools, trade drive exodus from remote parts of the Amazon

Soizic Le Courtois 17 Dec 2010

NASA image reveals worst drought on record for the Amazon river

Mongabay.com 15 Dec 2010

Formal petition filed against Belo Monte dam

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2010

Amazon biodiversity older than believed

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2010

Amazon suffers worst drought in decades

Jeremy Hance 24 Oct 2010

Google Earth animation shows Brazilian plans to turn Amazon into ‘series of stagnant reservoirs’

Rhett A. Butler 30 Aug 2010

146 dams threaten Amazon basin

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2010

‘Prepare for war’: tensions rising over Brazil’s controversial Belo Monte dam

Jeremy Hance 25 May 2010

BP and the Perilous Voyage of Bama the Manatee

Nikolas Kozloff 23 May 2010

Off and on again: Belo Monte dam goes forward, protests planned

Jeremy Hance 20 Apr 2010

Brazil suspends Amazon dam project targeted by Avatar director

Mongabay.com 15 Apr 2010

Secrets of the Amazon: giant anacondas and floating forests, an interview with Paul Rosolie

Jeremy Hance 10 Mar 2010

Guyana expedition finds biodiversity trove in area slated for oil and gas development, an interview with Robert Pickles

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2009

Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

Rhett A. Butler 17 Nov 2009

Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon

Rhett A. Butler 8 Sep 2009

New Amazonian reserve saves over a million acres in Peru

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2009

NASA photos show severe flooding in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2009

Age of the Amazon River estimated at 11 million years

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2009

Near-record flooding in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 13 May 2009

14,000-barrel oil spill in the Ecuadorean Amazon

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2009

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