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Sharp jump in deforestation when Amazon parks lose protected status

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Mar 2014

Is Brazil’s epic drought a taste of the future?

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2014

New $20,000 reporting grant explores benefits of Amazonian protected areas

Mongabay.org 21 Feb 2014

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

Helping the Amazon’s ‘Jaguar People’ protect their culture and traditional wisdom

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Feb 2014

Photos: mass turtle hatching produces over 200,000 babies

Jeremy Hance 11 Feb 2014

Drought, fire reducing ability of Amazon rainforest to store carbon

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2014

Amazon rainforest does not ‘green up’ during the dry season

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2014

Brazilian soy industry extends deforestation moratorium

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2014

287 amphibian and reptile species in Peruvian park sets world record (photos)

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jan 2014

New dolphin discovered in the Amazon surprises scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2014

Red toad discovered in the upper reaches of the Amazon

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 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

Assassination 25 years ago catalyzed movement to protect the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2013

Indigenous groups win right to pursue Chevron assets in Canada in Amazon pollution case

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2013

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2013

Brazilian cattle producers standardize audits to exclude deforestation from supply chain

Mongabay.com 18 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

Brazil could boost agriculture without destroying forests

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2013

Gold mine near controversial Belo Monte dam suspended

Mongabay.com 22 Nov 2013

The quicksilver demon: rogue gold-mining is the world’s largest source of mercury pollution

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 20 Nov 2013

Why is Amazon deforestation climbing?

Daniel Nepstad 17 Nov 2013

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon jumps 28% in 2013

Mongabay.com 14 Nov 2013

Powered by Google, high resolution forest map reveals massive deforestation worldwide

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2013

Flawed from inception? Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT initiative threatened indigenous groups with simple mapping errors

Nsikan Akpan 13 Nov 2013

Locally extinct birds in the Amazon slowly flock back to forests when trees regrow

Cat Ferguson 13 Nov 2013

Amazon’s vast rainforest dominated by few tree species

Patricia Waldron 12 Nov 2013

Exclusive: Stunning aerial photos reveal Ecuador building roads deeper into richest rainforest on Earth (Yasuní National Park)

Matt Finer 12 Nov 2013

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