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NASA photos show severe flooding in the Amazon

Can non-timber forest products help conserve the Amazon?

Illegal Amazon timber passed off as eco-certified in massive wood laundering scheme

Age of the Amazon River estimated at 11 million years

Tiny monkey species discovered in the Amazon rainforest

Extinction risk for Amazonian plants may be lower than previously estimated

Brazil’s development bank to require beef-tracking system to avoid illegal Amazon deforestation

NASA images show huge drop in Amazon fires in 2008

Brazil’s minister of ideas, nemesis of former environmental minister, resigns

Tesco responds to allegations of causing Amazon deforestation

Brazil approves land tenure law that grants 260,000 sq mi of rainforest to settlers, speculators

Brazilian cattle giant declares moratorium on Amazon deforestation

Brazilian miner Vale signs $500M palm oil deal in the Amazon

Amazon deforestation in 2009 declines to lowest on record

Brazil to pay farmers $50/month to plant trees in the Amazon

Peru revokes decrees that sparked Amazon Indian uprising

Cattle giant JBS facing corruption probe

Amazon could lose 60% of forest without triggering catastrophic die-off, claims new study

Photos: treasure trove of new species discovered in Ecuador

World Bank revokes loan to Brazilian cattle giant accused of Amazon deforestation

Wal-Mart bans beef illegally produced in the Amazon rainforest

Peru suspends decree that triggered bloody conflict between Indians and police

Amazon deforestation doesn’t make communities richer, better educated, or healthier

Lear’s Macaw: back from the brink

Brazil to sanction illegal colonization in 230,000 sq mi of Amazon rainforest

Oil or Death in the Amazon

Peruvian police kill 10 Indians in battle over Amazon oil drilling

Bill Clinton speaks out for rainforests in Brazil

Tribes in Peru to get $0.68/acre for protecting Amazon forest

Brazil’s plan to save the Amazon rainforest

Brazil accounts for 74% of global land area protected since 2003

Political infighting in Brazil threatens the Amazon rainforest

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