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What if companies actually had to compensate society for environmental destruction?

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

Featured documentary: Damocracy, highlighting the battles over the Belo Monte and Ilisu dams

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

Amazon: the world’s greatest rainforest or internet giant?

Jonathan Watts 25 Apr 2013

Frequent understory fires change rainforest community composition

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2013

Burned rainforest vulnerable to grass invasion

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Apr 2013

Brazil’s success in reducing deforestation will be hard to replicate

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2013

Brazil threatens $282m in fines for beef linked to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2013

Judge halts military-backed dam assessment in Brazil’s Amazon

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2013

New insect discovered in Brazil, only third known in its bizarre family (photos)

Alexander Holmgren 15 Apr 2013

New species tree-dwelling porcupine discovered in critically threatened Brazilian habitat

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Apr 2013

Landowner who allegedly ordered Amazon murders acquitted

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

6 lessons for stopping deforestation on the frontier

Daniel Nepstad 9 Apr 2013

Featured video: stemming human-caused fires in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 9 Apr 2013

Indigenous group: Brazil using military to force Amazon dams

Jonathan Watts 8 Apr 2013

30% of Brazil’s emissions from deforestation are export-driven

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Apr 2013

Killings over land continues in the Amazon

David Hill 4 Apr 2013

Where the flamingos fly: Mumbai, apparently!

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 3 Apr 2013

Human-wildlife conflict on the rise in India

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 3 Apr 2013

Scientists describe new species of see-through fish from the Amazon

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2013

Where do the birds fly? – Migrant Watch, a ‘citizen science’ data collection organization tells you

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 2 Apr 2013

Brazilian govt confirms rise in deforestation

Mongabay.com 28 Mar 2013

Conflict zones have higher deforestation rates in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Mar 2013

Brazilian supermarkets ban beef linked to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 27 Mar 2013

Roads could help protect the environment rather than destroy it, argues Nature paper

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Mar 2013

Tribe rejects payment from electricity company behind destructive Amazon dam

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2013

Parks, indigenous territories are effectively reducing Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2013

Gucci launches ‘zero-deforestation’ handbag

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2013

A promising initiative to address deforestation in Brazil at the local level

Beto Veríssimo 5 Mar 2013

Saving forests by putting a price on them

Frank Merry 4 Mar 2013

The challenge of putting Brazil’s forests in good hands

Andrea Margit 28 Feb 2013

Deforestation, wetlands loss in Brazil and Indonesia generated 45b tons of CO2 in 20 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2013

First strike: nearly 200 illegal loggers arrested in massive sting across 12 countries

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2013

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