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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

Rainforest news review for 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Dec 2013

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

Amazon deforestation could cause droughts in California

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Nov 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 7 Nov 2013

Deforestation may hurt U.S. agriculture, affect monsoon cycle

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2013

Rebranded as the Rainforest Trust, green group launches push to protect 6M acres of Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2013

Belo Monte dam suspended

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2013

50,000 km of roads built across Brazilian Amazon in 3 years

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2013

Gold mining in the Amazon rainforest surges 400%

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Oct 2013

Pictures: 441 new species described in the Amazon rainforest since 2010

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2013

Illegal logging remains rampant in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Oct 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

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