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Brazil ignored U.N. letters warning of land defender threats, record killings

Jenny Gonzales 23 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 22 Mar 2018

Brazilian lawmakers funded by donors guilty of environmental crimes: report

Anna Sophie Gross 21 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Agribusiness may be killing Brazil’s ‘birthplace of waters’

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 19 Mar 2018

Cerrado: appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 12 Mar 2018

Trump to allow elephant and lion trophies on case-by-case basis

Jeremy Hance 8 Mar 2018

Analysis: the Brazilian Supreme Court’s New Forest Code ruling

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 7 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018
Bison in Chihuahua, Mexico, where protected grasslands in the U.S. and Mexico create a bi-national wildlife corridor. President Trump’s border hardening plans threaten the continuity of this habitat, and existing fencing has already curtailed the bison's movements. Photo by Rurik List.

Judge OKs waiving environmental laws to build U.S.-Mexico border wall

Mongabay 1 Mar 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018

Norsk Hydro accused of Amazon toxic spill, admits ‘clandestine pipeline’

Max Nathanson 27 Feb 2018

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Maximo Anderson, Aaron Vincent Elkaim 26 Feb 2018

Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

Brazil’s fundamental pesticide law under attack

Jenny Gonzales 20 Feb 2018

Red Cloud’s Revolution: Oglalla Sioux freeing themselves from fossil fuel

Saul Elbein 19 Feb 2018

Brazilian Supreme Court ruling protects Quilombola land rights for now

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 13 Feb 2018
Bison in the Janos Valley of Chihuahua, Mexico. A population of about 100 bison lives in Mexico, where they are listed as a species in danger of extinction. The herd’s trips from the U.S. to Mexico have been curtailed by a hardening of the border in the Janos Valley. Photo by Rurik List courtesy of CONABIO.

Rewriting biological history: Trump border wall puts wildlife at risk

Rebecca Kessler 12 Feb 2018

Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests

Sean Mowbray 5 Feb 2018

Venezuela: can a failing state protect its environment and its people?

Glenn Scherer 1 Feb 2018

Maduro seeks sell off of Venezuela’s natural resources to escape debt – analysis

Bram Ebus 25 Jan 2018

Pope’s message to Amazonia inspires hope, but will it bring action?

Justin Catanoso 22 Jan 2018

Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

Zoe Sullivan 18 Jan 2018

Venezuela’s Mining Arc boom sweeps up Indigenous people and cultures

Bram Ebus 15 Jan 2018

Trump threatens NASA climate satellite missions as Congress stalls

Giovanni Ortolani 12 Jan 2018

Brazil 2018: Amazon under attack, resistance grows, courts to act, elections

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jan 2018

IUCN, UN, global NGOs, likely to see major budget cuts under Trump

Sean Mowbray 8 Jan 2018

Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2018

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Dec 2017

So long, UNESCO! What does U.S. withdrawal mean for the environment?

Giovanni Ortolani 26 Dec 2017

EU-LatAm trade deal good for agribusiness; bad for Amazon, climate – analysis

Sue Branford 18 Dec 2017

Brazil / UK push offshore oil pact, a potential climate change disaster

Jenny Gonzales 13 Dec 2017

Latin America-Europe trade pact to include historic indigenous rights clause

Lucy EJ Woods 12 Dec 2017

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