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Company to probe for minerals close to Mekong River dolphin habitat

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2018

Natural World Heritage Sites in trouble, especially in the Tropics

Claire Asher 11 Jan 2018

Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses

Claire Salisbury 10 Jan 2018

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

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 9 Jan 2018

Rainforests: the year in review 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2018

Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2018

Waterbirds flock to well-run countries, new study shows

Mongabay.com 29 Dec 2017

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 27 Dec 2017

Roads, dams and railways: Ten infrastructure stories from Southeast Asia in 2017

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2017

Amazon dam impacts underestimated due to overlooked vine growth: study

Claire Salisbury 20 Dec 2017

Mine tailings dam failures major cause of environmental disasters: report

Zoe Sullivan 19 Dec 2017

Fundão dam criminal case moves ahead against 21 mining executives

Zoe Sullivan 29 Nov 2017

Damming or damning the Amazon: Assessing Ecuador / China cooperation

Max Nathanson 22 Nov 2017

From friends to strangers: The decline of the Irrawaddy dolphin (commentary)

Sabrina Gyorvary with Namthip Khudsavanh 20 Nov 2017

From carbon sink to source: Brazil puts Amazon, Paris goals at risk

Claire Salisbury 9 Nov 2017

Indonesia races against time to save new orangutan species

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2017

Mining activity causing nearly 10 percent of Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 2 Nov 2017

The Eighth Great Ape: New orangutan species discovered in Sumatra

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Nov 2017

As Northwest salmon economy teeters on brink, Trump gives it a push

Saul Elbein 23 Oct 2017

Belo Monte dam-opposing Brazilian activist wins prestigious environmental award

Mike Gaworecki 19 Oct 2017

Amazonian manatee migration at risk from disruption by proposed dams

Claire Salisbury 19 Oct 2017

‘If it’s going to kill us, OK, we’ll die’: Villagers stand firm as Cambodian dam begins to fill

Jenny Denton 18 Oct 2017

Munduruku standoff against Amazon dam builders potentially explosive

Sue Branford, Fernanda Moreira, Mauricio Torres 17 Oct 2017
Manolo Miranda, an indigenous leader recently acquitted of charges in a suit brought by the Barro Blanco dam's construction company, at a protest over the dam in August, 2016. Photo by Camilo Mejia Geraldo for Mongabay.

Indigenous group scores legal victory as dam floods their lands

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 12 Oct 2017

Amazon community on Tapajós River invaded by wildcat miners

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres, Ailen Vega 2 Oct 2017

Amazon dam operator defies order to shut down, police action looms

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2017

Cross currents: Mega-dams and micro-hydro offer two different futures for rural Borneo

Kenny Gotlieb 20 Sep 2017

Amazon dam defeats Brazil’s environment agency (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Sep 2017

Andes dams could threaten food security for millions in Amazon basin

Claire Asher 19 Sep 2017

Belo Monte dam installation license suspended, housing inadequacy cited

Zoe Sullivan 19 Sep 2017

Transformance: Finding common ground in the Amazon (commentary)

Gus Greenstein 12 Sep 2017

Renewable energy to power 139 countries? Scientists say it’s possible

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2017

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