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Indigenous leaders killed in Philippines were ‘red-tagged’ over dam opposition

Jun N. Aguirre 8 Feb 2021

Award-winning Thai community continues the fight to save its wetland forest

Carolyn Cowan 11 Jan 2021

Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Dec 2020

Belo Monte dam’s water demands imperil Amazon communities, environment

Tiffany Higgins 16 Dec 2020

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

Ana Ionova 17 Nov 2020

Brazil’s Bem Querer dam: An impending Amazon disaster (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 16 Nov 2020

Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Oct 2020
Boy with a 'dorado' catfish. Photo by Michael Goulding.

Why the health of the Amazon River matters to us all: An interview with Michael Goulding

Rhett A. Butler 9 Sep 2020

Mercury from gold mining contaminates Amazon communities’ staple fish

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2020

Infrastructure plans imperil Latin America’s forests: Analysis

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2020

Indonesia dam builder refuses new study to assess impact on orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Aug 2020

In Brazil, human action and climate change are drowning a community

Rafael Duarte 18 Aug 2020

Ecuador races for emergency infrastructure as river’s collapse threatens dam

Antonio José Paz Cardona 11 Aug 2020

Deforestation in the Amazon is drying up the rest of Brazil: Report

Sibélia Zanon 7 Aug 2020
Angohó Ha-ha-hãe is a shaman and one of the leaders of Naô Xohã indigenous village, which is requesting to be temporarily relocated by Vale due to the river pollution. Image by Luiz Guilherme Fernandes for Mongabay

Mining industry releases first standard to improve safety of waste storage

Ian Morse 6 Aug 2020

More than 500 dams planned inside protected areas: Study

Liz Kimbrough 5 Aug 2020

Dam that threatens orangutan habitat faces three-year delay

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jul 2020

Life as an Amazon activist: ‘I don’t want to be the next Dorothy Stang’

Peter Speetjens 13 Jul 2020

Traditional villages dread living in shadow of Amazon tailings dams

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 9 Jul 2020

Brazil could dynamite Amazon dolphin, turtle habitat for industrial waterway

Tiffany Higgins 2 Jul 2020

Experts see environmental, social fallout in Indonesia’s infrastructure push

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2020

Communities on Brazil’s ‘River of Unity’ tested by dams, climate change

Sarah Sax 2 Jun 2020

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund drops major Brazil miner, utility from its portfolio

Ashoka Mukpo 19 May 2020

Forest clearing proceeds for dam in Sumatra despite locals’ land claims

Barita News Lumbanbatu 7 May 2020

Massive erosion likely due to hydropower dam causes oil spill on Ecuador’s Coca River

Antonio José Paz Cardona 6 May 2020

China held water back from drought-stricken Mekong countries, report says

Michael Tatarski 30 Apr 2020

Why did Ecuador’s tallest waterfall suddenly disappear?

Antonio José Paz Cardona 18 Mar 2020

Indonesia’s Lake Poso, an evolutionary ‘gem,’ threatened by dam

Ian Morse 12 Mar 2020

Amazon Tipping Point puts Brazil’s agribusiness, energy sector at risk: Top scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Feb 2020

Past and future tropical dams devastating to fish the world over: Study

Asher Elbein 21 Feb 2020

Making a thriller out of Belo Monte hydro dam: Q&A with filmmaker Sabrina McCormick

Débora Pinto 18 Feb 2020

Family seeks justice as probe into Indonesian activist’s death stalls

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2020

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