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Tropical deforestation could disrupt rainfall globally

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2014

Indigenous communities ‘among the very few best protectors’ of Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 12 Dec 2014

Indigenous leader murdered before he could attend Climate Summit

Jeremy Hance 8 Dec 2014

How an indigenous community in Ecuador stood up to big oil – and won

Julian Moll-rocek 5 Dec 2014

Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

Deforestation jumps in Peru

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2014

Threatened indigenous forests store more than half the Amazon’s carbon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Dec 2014

Amazon deforestation in Brazil drops 18% in 2013/2014

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Nov 2014

Amazon deforestation moratorium extended 18 months

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Nov 2014

Rising deforestation, fossil fuels use drive Brazil’s emissions 8% higher

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Nov 2014

A tale of 2 Perus: Climate Summit host, 57 murdered environmentalists

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2014

Brazilian government silent as deforestation rises in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2014

Surprising reasons to be optimistic about saving forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2014

New birds arise due to emigration not separation

Jordanna Dulaney 11 Nov 2014

Peru has massive opportunity to avoid emissions from deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2014

New laws may turn Brazil’s forests into mines

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 2014

Reducing tax evasion could help save the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2014

Facing severe drought, ‘war effort’ needed to save the Amazon, says scientist

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2014

Daring activists use high-tech to track illegal logging trucks in the Brazilian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2014

As Amazon deforestation falls, small farmers play bigger role in forest clearing

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2014

‘River wolves’ recover in Peruvian park, but still remain threatened inside and out (photos)

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2014

Forest fragmentation’s carbon bomb: 736 million tonnes C02 annually

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2014

Brazil unlikely to sustain gains in reducing deforestation without new incentives for ranchers, says study

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Oct 2014

An impossible balancing act? Forests benefit from isolation, but at cost to local communities

Anna Ikarashi 7 Oct 2014

Turning point for Peru’s forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2014

‘The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood’: authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2014

Brazil’s planned Tapajós dams would increase Amazon deforestation by 1M ha

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2014

Brazil confirms last year’s rise in Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Sep 2014

Authorities stop ‘greatest destroyers of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Aug 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

China and Europe’s outsourcing of soy production impacts the Amazon

Mongabay.com 14 Aug 2014

95% of Amazon deforestation happens near roads or major rivers

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2014

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