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‘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

The alarming number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon

Natália Girão Rodrigues de Mello 8 Sep 2016

Raging Amazon forest fires threaten uncontacted indigenous tribe

Mike Gaworecki 23 Aug 2016

NASA images show the Amazon could be facing an intense wildfire season this year

Mike Gaworecki 15 Jul 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

What’s ahead for rainforests in 2016? 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2016

El Niño vs. the Amazon: researchers worry Brazil is not prepared

Ethan Harfenist 16 Dec 2015

Sharp rise in wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon over the past 16 years

Carolina Torres 9 Dec 2015

There have been more than 11,000 fires in just one region of the Brazilian Amazon this year

Mike Gaworecki 5 Nov 2015

Reduced Amazon deforestation may be saving thousands of human lives

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Oct 2015

Russia and Canada lead the world in forest loss in 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Apr 2015

Logging, fires take a hidden toll on Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2014

Drought, fire reducing ability of Amazon rainforest to store carbon

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2014

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2013

Deforestation may hurt U.S. agriculture, affect monsoon cycle

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2013

Amazon fire risk on the rise, says NASA

Mongabay.com 9 Jun 2013

NASA: 3% of Amazon rainforest burned between 1999-2010

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jun 2013

Indigenous tribes say effects of climate change already felt in Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Apr 2013

Frequent understory fires change rainforest community composition

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2013

Burned rainforest vulnerable to grass invasion

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Apr 2013

Featured video: stemming human-caused fires in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 9 Apr 2013

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2012

Fire risk to increase in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2012

Can loggers be conservationists?

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2012

Scientists unlock indigenous secret to sustainable agriculture in the Amazon’s savannas

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Apr 2012

Deforestation, climate change threaten the ecological resilience of the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Jan 2012

Is the Russian Forest Code a warning for Brazil?

Jeremy Hance 19 Dec 2011

Repeated burning undercuts Amazon rainforest recovery

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2011

Climate change and deforestation pose risk to Amazon rainforest

Karimeh Moukaddem 20 May 2011

Last year’s drought hit Amazon hard: nearly a million square miles impacted

Jeremy Hance 29 Mar 2011

Satellites show fragmented rainforests significantly drier than intact forest

Jeremy Hance 13 Oct 2010

Suku pribumi, tim peternak menghadapi kebakaran di Amazon

Rhett A. Butler, Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2010

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