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Peru rainforest lost to illegal gold mining eclipses 10 Manhattans

Benji Jones 24 Nov 2016

Amazon oil spill impacts indigenous villages on Teles Pires River

Zoe Sullivan 21 Nov 2016

New report: Brazil’s Cerrado could sidestep conversion for agriculture

John Cannon 13 Nov 2016

Gold mining invades new areas of Peruvian Amazon

Benji Jones 11 Nov 2016

New talks on oil pollution could end indigenous blockade of Amazonian river in Peru

Barbara Fraser 9 Nov 2016

‘A man schooled in the Amazon:’ Q&A with director of new feature film about the fight to save the rainforest

Mike Gaworecki 9 Nov 2016

Are global commodities producers living up to their climate promises?

Mike Gaworecki 3 Nov 2016

Mongabay Newscast episode 4: Inside scoop on new Netflix documentary “The Ivory Game;” orangutan habitat under threat in Indonesia

Mike Gaworecki 1 Nov 2016

Thirst for coltan, gold threatens Venezuelan forests, indigenous lands

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Oct 2016

Another pipeline spill reported in Peruvian Amazon as indigenous protests enter eighth week

Barbara Fraser 25 Oct 2016

Failed economic development plans drive deforestation in Andean Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 20 Oct 2016

Lakes in community hands spur gains for people and fish

John Cannon 20 Oct 2016
Auyna Tepui in Parque Nacional Canaima, part of the Guiana Shield. Photo by Christoph Kühnhanss via Wikimedia Commons.

The Guiana Shield, the ‘greenhouse of the world’

Akola Thompson 19 Oct 2016

Study finds Brazil isn’t counting all deforestation in official estimates

Mike Gaworecki 19 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

Brazil pledges to cut carbon, but government policies say otherwise

Jenny Gonzales 6 Oct 2016

Brazil revises Amazon deforestation 6% upward

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Oct 2016
Hundreds of indigenous people from villages along River Marañon gathered at Saramuro, where Petroperu Station 1 is based, staging a protest against Petroperu and the government. Photo by Ann Wang

A photographer’s journey into a Peruvian oil spill

Ann Wang 3 Oct 2016

U.S. imports of Amazon crude oil driving expansion of oil operations

Mike Gaworecki 30 Sep 2016

Amazon radio network unites regional opposition to Tapajós basin dams

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2016

Scientists say Amazon biodiversity could help fuel Fourth Industrial Revolution

Mike Gaworecki 20 Sep 2016

Introducing the Mongabay Newscast

Mike Gaworecki 20 Sep 2016

Interpol issues notice about illegal timber trading operation in Brazil

Mike Gaworecki 15 Sep 2016
Progression of deforestation in Bahuaja-Sonene National Park. Image courtesy of MAAP. Data from Planet, Digital Globe (Nextview)

Illegal deforestation hits three regions of Peru

Milton López Tarabochia 15 Sep 2016

Global brands’ beef is putting South America’s tropical forests at risk: report

Mike Gaworecki 13 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

The alarming number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon

Natália Girão Rodrigues de Mello 8 Sep 2016

Rainforest destruction rises in the Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2016

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Sue Branford 26 Aug 2016

New ‘sleeping beauty’ frog discovered in fragmented Peruvian forest

Apoorva Joshi 25 Aug 2016

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