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Nixed Bolivian highway offers environmental lessons to big Brazil bank

Ana Rosa de Lima, Alexandra Ellerbeck 24 Aug 2016

Raging Amazon forest fires threaten uncontacted indigenous tribe

Mike Gaworecki 23 Aug 2016

Dams inevitably result in species decline, losses on reservoir islands

Claire Salisbury 23 Aug 2016

Why is Brazil regressing in its fight against deforestation?

Paulo Barreto 12 Aug 2016

Illegal gold mining eats up more protected Peruvian rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Aug 2016

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

Carolina Torres 12 Aug 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Using Big Data to combat the illegal timber trade in Brazil

Mike Gaworecki 10 Aug 2016

Peru’s new environmental policies: What are they and will they work?

Justin Catanoso 5 Aug 2016
Etnias, a 620-foot long mural in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, representing indigenous people from five continents by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra. The mural was commissioned for the Olympics. Photo by Agência Brasil Fotografias.

Olympics to begin amid rising violence against Brazil’s indigenous people

Sandra Cuffe 4 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

Study: Drought impedes tree growth, shuts down Amazon carbon sink

Claire Asher 21 Jul 2016

Cattle driving big forest loss in Peru’s ‘under-appreciated’ Amazon

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2016

Huge cacao plantation in Peru illegally developed on forest-zoned land

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Jul 2016

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

Sue Branford 13 Jul 2016

Even reduced-impact logging in the Amazon may be unsustainable

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2016

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Claire Salisbury 12 Jul 2016

Deforestation from illegal gold mining spreads to northern Peru

Apoorva Joshi 7 Jul 2016

Small time land speculators profit in advance of Amazon dams

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 5 Jul 2016

Forest degradation in Brazil can have just as drastic an impact on biodiversity as deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jun 2016

Facing controversy, Peruvian palm oil firm seeks sale of its Amazon rainforest holdings

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2016

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

Claire Salisbury 21 Jun 2016

Search warrant executed at Global Plywood over alleged Lacey Act violations

Mike Gaworecki 20 Jun 2016

The prosecutor who lassoed deforestation

Eduardo Pegurier 15 Jun 2016

Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land

Sue Branford 6 Jun 2016

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Claire Salisbury 6 Jun 2016
Greenpeace protesting against a company's palm oil policy. Courtesy of Greenpeace

10 reasons to be optimistic for forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2016

Here’s what’s driving deforestation in South America

Mike Gaworecki 31 May 2016

Dams flood 36,000 hectares of Brazilian rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 May 2016

Proposed Amazon dam attracts illegal loggers, threatens local farmers

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 19 May 2016

Tapajós dam puts newly discovered species, indigenous people at risk

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 17 May 2016

Gold mining shifts course of Peruvian river, ‘will destroy’ ecosystems

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 May 2016

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