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Imperiled Amazon freshwater ecosystems urgently need basin-wide study, management

Claire Salisbury 1 Feb 2016

Peru issues its first sentence against species traffickers, setting a precedent

Ruxandra Guidi 28 Jan 2016

Over-hunting’s surprising connection to global warming

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jan 2016

Yaguas National Park, another great attempt at conservation in Peru

Ruxandra Guidi 21 Jan 2016

Scientist makes painful discovery: a frog able to inject toxic venom

Kolawole Talabi 20 Jan 2016

Alarming proof of underreported bushmeat crisis in heart of Amazonia

Chaney Giordano 19 Jan 2016

Brazilian court suspends operating license for Belo Monte dam

Glenn Scherer 15 Jan 2016

Peru terminates head of forest watchdog agency

Ruxandra Guidi 15 Jan 2016

Forest loss increased annually for 25 years at oldest Amazon mega-dam

Claire Salisbury 14 Jan 2016

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

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jan 2016

Corruption guided award of huge Amazon dam contracts in Brazil

Sue Branford 13 Jan 2016

Scientists sound alarm over hydropower’s impacts on tropical fish biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2016

Gold mining revs up, eats away more Peruvian rainforest

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Jan 2016

New military base planned for Peru’s Madre de Dios region in an effort to fight illegal mining

8 Jan 2016

Illegal gold mining spreads to protected Peruvian reserve

Apoorva Joshi 7 Jan 2016

What’s ahead for rainforests in 2016? 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2016

Here are the top happy environmental stories of 2015

Mike Gaworecki 31 Dec 2015

Applying open-source tracking technology to hunting research in Brazil

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 30 Dec 2015

Cocaine-linked airstrip appears in Peruvian national park

Ethan Harfenist 29 Dec 2015

Amazon rainforests could transition to savannah-like states in response to climate change, new study predicts

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2015

Wildlife catastrophe at Amazon dam a warning for future Tapajós dams

Jennifer Huizen 28 Dec 2015

Creating a commons: sustainable fishing and hunting in the Colombian Amazon

David Barton Bray 23 Dec 2015

El Niño vs. the Amazon: researchers worry Brazil is not prepared

Ethan Harfenist 16 Dec 2015

Damming the Amazon: new hydropower projects put river dolphins at risk

Claire Salisbury 15 Dec 2015

The most recent seizure shows the scale and extent of illegal timber trafficking in Peru

Ruxandra Guidi 14 Dec 2015

Sharp rise in wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon over the past 16 years

Carolina Torres 9 Dec 2015

Illegal gold miners in Madre de Dios, Peru, paralyze the region with protests

Ruxandra Guidi 4 Dec 2015

Indigenous leaders at COP21: 20 percent of tropical forest carbon is sitting on Indigenous land

Mike Gaworecki 2 Dec 2015

Brazilian environmental NGOs depend heavily on corporate money

Jenny Gonzales 1 Dec 2015
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Amazon deforestation jumps in Brazil, but remains historically low

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2015

Grassroots leader’s murder in Peru is a signal to opponents of mining, son says

Barbara Fraser 27 Nov 2015

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

Mike Gaworecki 26 Nov 2015

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