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Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Benjamin Blocksom translator, Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

CEO and execs charged with homicide in Samarco dam collapse in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 25 Feb 2016

Soil carbon could be key to protecting global biodiversity and climate at same time

Mike Gaworecki 24 Feb 2016

Eight newly discovered species of whip spiders could soon become extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Feb 2016

To stop the Zika virus from spreading in Brazil, specialists call for an ‘environmental revolution’

Carolina Torres 18 Feb 2016

Zika virus and climate change

Fred Bercovitch 17 Feb 2016

Brazil’s Senate could soon be voting against the country’s environmental safeguards

Jenny Gonzales 16 Feb 2016

77 inspiring rainforest pictures

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Feb 2016

In the rush to reforest, are the world’s old-growth grasslands losing out?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Feb 2016

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Guilherme Rosa from Repórter Brasil, Benjamin Blocksom translator 8 Feb 2016

Drop in commodity prices isn’t necessarily helping indigenous peoples and the environment in Brazil

Carolina Torres 8 Feb 2016

A railroad that crosses the Amazon could be an infeasible, expensive dream for Peru

Barbara Fraser 4 Feb 2016

Primate-Watching: In the Year of the Monkey, let’s build a Conservation Movement

Russell A. Mittermeier 3 Feb 2016

Managing fish stock –and fishermen– along Brazil’s Canaticu River

Jenny Gonzales 2 Feb 2016

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

Claire Salisbury 1 Feb 2016

Over-hunting’s surprising connection to global warming

Mike Gaworecki 26 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

Mining company executives indicted in Brazil over the country’s largest environmental disaster

Jenny Gonzales 14 Jan 2016

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

Claire Salisbury 14 Jan 2016

Corruption guided award of huge Amazon dam contracts in Brazil

Sue Branford 13 Jan 2016

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2016

Applying open-source tracking technology to hunting research in Brazil

Suzanne Palminteri 30 Dec 2015

The year in rainforests: 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2015

Wildlife catastrophe at Amazon dam a warning for future Tapajós dams

Jennifer Huizen 28 Dec 2015
Chevron's Duri oil field in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

How does the global commodity collapse impact forest conservation?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Dec 2015

Loss of big animals reduces forests’ carbon-storing capacity

Loren Bell 19 Dec 2015

New research sheds light on how to help birds in the vanishing Atlantic Forest

Apoorva Joshi 18 Dec 2015

One of Brazil’s worst environmental crimes brings into question whether the country’s environmental policies are influenced by large mining companies

Renata Leite Pitman 17 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

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