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Tear down the dams: New coalition strives to enshrine rights of orcas

Gianluca Cerullo 19 Mar 2019

New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction

John Cannon 15 Mar 2019

Activists fighting to save orangutan habitat from dam unfazed by legal setback

James Fair 5 Mar 2019

The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans

Liz Kimbrough 5 Mar 2019

Brazil’s Sinop Dam flouts environmental legislation (Commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 1 Mar 2019

Protests flare as pressure mounts on dam project in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Mar 2019

Financiers to discuss hydropower as climate-change mitigation, but dams are not ‘clean energy’ (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 26 Feb 2019

New Species of orangutan threatened from moment of its discovery

Laurel Neme 20 Feb 2019

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Jan Rocha 20 Feb 2019

What does it take to discover a new great ape species?

Laurel Neme 19 Feb 2019

Latam Eco Review: Twilight for Darwin’s foxes, nightlife for jaguarundis

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2019

Dam déjà vu: 2 Brazil mining waste disasters in 3 years raise alarms

Zoe Sullivan and Caio de Freitas Paes 11 Feb 2019

Good news from Mexico monarch reserve despite looming deforestation, mine threat

Mike Gaworecki 5 Feb 2019

New appointments, new policies don’t bode well for Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 4 Feb 2019
The mudslide near Brumadinho via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Dam holding mining waste collapses in Brazil

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro government reveals plan to develop the ‘Unproductive Amazon’

Jan Rocha 28 Jan 2019

Of concrete and corruption: Resistance kills Andes Amazon dams

Saul Elbein 24 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 14 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

Devastating Laos dam collapse leads to deforestation of protected forests

Chris Humphrey 28 Dec 2018

Brazil: Bolsonaro supporter works to imprison Dorothy Stang’s successor

Daniel Camargos, Roberto Cataldo 28 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

Sue Branford; Thais Borges; and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2018

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

Dam drove ‘collapse’ of rainforest bird populations in Thailand

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2018

The true story of how 96 critically endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived New York City

Mike Gaworecki 11 Dec 2018

Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding

Max Nathanson 10 Dec 2018

7 convicted of killing Honduran indigenous activist Berta Cáceres

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2018

Santo Antônio mega-dam on Brazil’s Madeira River disrupts local lives

Sonya Cunningham 3 Dec 2018

Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end: experts

Claire Asher 29 Nov 2018

New dam set to spoil Sumatran wonderland (commentary)

Gregory McCann and Haray Sampurna Munthe 20 Nov 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Nov 2018

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Anna Sophie Gross 7 Nov 2018

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