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Miners win ruling over indigenous groups in Guyana

Bolivia takes step to boost agriculture and curb surging deforestation

Brazil to inventory the Amazon

Illegally logged trees to start calling for help

Photos: Scientists discover tapir bonanza in the Amazon

Amazon deforestation rate pacing ahead of last year

Gold mine approved in French Guiana’s only national park

Colombia to double the size of massive Amazon reserve to include uncontacted tribes’ land

The year in rainforests

Amazon rainforest failing to recover after droughts

Amazon deforestation obliterates soil biodiversity, with wider ecological implications

Brazil launches forest trading system

Brazil sues to block unlicensed REDD deal between Irish company and indigenous group

Some Amazon trees more than 8 million years old

Advanced technology reveals massive tree die-off in remote, unexplored parts of the Amazon

Uncontacted tribes still exist, but extinction threat looms

Dams are rapidly damning the Amazon

108 million ha of Amazon rainforest up for oil and gas exploration, development

Amazon has nearly 100,000 km of roads

Mining boom in the Amazon

Norway payments to Brazil for reducing deforestation reach $670 million

Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainforest countries

Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle over land in an Amazonian metropolis

Brazilian bank approves $10.8 billion loan for controversial Amazon rainforest dam

Brazil’s deforestation at record low from 2011-2012

Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million

Amazon deforestation tracking higher in Brazil

Featured video: on-the-ground look at Brazil’s fight against deforestation

Most controversial aspects of Brazil’s new Forest Code vetoed as legislation signed into law

UNESCO disturbed by gas plans for Peru’s Manu National Park

Brazil forms special environmental security force to combat spike in deforestation

Indigenous groups re-occupy Belo Monte dam in the Amazon

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