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Resource wars: Brazilian gold miners go up against indigenous people

Zoe Sullivan 15 Dec 2016

Brazil’s dispossessed: Belo Monte dam ruinous for indigenous cultures

Zoe Sullivan 8 Dec 2016

The media megaphone: does it help curb bad infrastructure projects?

Daniel Pye and Alice Cuddy 7 Dec 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016

Amazon oil spill impacts indigenous villages on Teles Pires River

Zoe Sullivan 21 Nov 2016

Thirst for coltan, gold threatens Venezuelan forests, indigenous lands

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Oct 2016

Violence against indigenous people high, as land conflicts heat up

Carolina Torres 18 Oct 2016

Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford 17 Oct 2016

Barro Blanco dam in limbo after Ngäbe-Bugle Congress rejects agreement

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 14 Oct 2016

Amazon radio network unites regional opposition to Tapajós basin dams

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2016

Operation license for Amazon’s Belo Monte mega-dam suspended

Zoe Sullivan 13 Sep 2016

Belo Monte dam compensation inadequate, say traditional fisherfolk

Zoe Sullivan 9 Sep 2016

Controversial dams on 5 Chilean rivers scrapped after years of campaign

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Sep 2016

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Sue Branford 26 Aug 2016

Nixed Bolivian highway offers environmental lessons to big Brazil bank

Ana Rosa de Lima and Alexandra Ellerbeck 24 Aug 2016
Tanzanian women carry new beehives into the forest. Photo by Felipe Rodriguez/APW

Can helping women achieve financial freedom help the environment, too?

Roz Evans 24 Aug 2016

Dams inevitably result in species decline, losses on reservoir islands

Claire Salisbury 23 Aug 2016

Promised US$1 billion in Belo Monte dam compensation largely unpaid?

Carolina Torres 12 Aug 2016
Google Earth image showing the site for the São Luiz do Tapajós dam.

Environmental licence for São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam denied

Sue Branford 4 Aug 2016

Tapajós dams may bring fish kills, species loss, mercury contamination

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 2 Aug 2016

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Sue Branford 13 Jul 2016

Small time land speculators profit in advance of Amazon dams

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 5 Jul 2016

Can conservationists overcome their differences to save life on Earth?

Mongabay 7 Jun 2016

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Claire Salisbury 6 Jun 2016

The key to tropical conservation: scrap big projects, invest in people

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2016

Epilogue: Conservation still divided, looking for a way forward

Jeremy Hance 24 May 2016

Proposed Amazon dam attracts illegal loggers, threatens local farmers

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 19 May 2016

Conservation’s people problem

Jeremy Hance 17 May 2016

Tapajós dam puts newly discovered species, indigenous people at risk

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 17 May 2016

Conservation today, the old-fashioned way

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2016

Nicaragua Canal would threaten endangered species says study

Lindsay Fendt 9 May 2016

Brazil’s Congress moves ahead to end nation’s environmental safeguards

Sue Branford 5 May 2016

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