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Facing a possible Climate Apocalypse: How should we live? (commentary)

Glenn Scherer 15 Sep 2019

Climate adaptation begins with how we manage water (commentary)

Claudia Sadoff 12 Sep 2019

Indonesian flooding disaster bears the hallmarks of agriculture and mining impacts

Ian Morse 7 Aug 2019

Former Brazilian enviro ministers blast Bolsonaro environmental assaults

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 23 May 2019

Amazon fish kill at Sinop spotlights risk from 80+ Tapajós basin dams

Caio de Freitas Paes 29 Apr 2019

Leading Amazon dam rights activist, spouse and friend murdered in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 27 Mar 2019

Madeira River dams may spell doom for Amazon’s marathon catfish: Studies

Text by Gustavo Faleiros and images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 25 Mar 2019

‘Nothing was left’: Flash floods, landslides hit Indonesia’s Papua region

Asrida Elisabeth, Della Syahni, Lusia Arumingtyas 21 Mar 2019

Putting the Blue in the Green New Deal (commentary)

David Helvarg, Jason Scorse 13 Mar 2019

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

Liz Kimbrough 5 Mar 2019

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Jan Rocha 20 Feb 2019

Environmental degradation exacerbates Indonesia flooding, landslides

Wahyu Chandra 30 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
rhino and car

Rhinos or roads? Nepal deals with a tricky balancing act

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 14 Jan 2019

Research links specific 2017 extreme weather events to climate change

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2019

Devastating Laos dam collapse leads to deforestation of protected forests

Kit Humphrey 28 Dec 2018

Amazon forests not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change: study

Claire Asher 19 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

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

Max Nathanson 10 Dec 2018

Extreme floods on the rise in the Amazon: study

Claire Asher 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

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Anna Sophie Gross 7 Nov 2018

Ongoing rise in sea levels will increase threats to World Heritage Sites

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2018

Global warming, human activities causing increased storm runoff, flash floods

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2018

Heavy rains preceded the Laos dam collapse. Was climate change a factor?

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2018

Chinese / Western financing of roads, dams led to major Andes Amazon deforestation

Gus Greenstein 1 Aug 2018

New flash-flood warning system in India could be life-saving

Karthikeyan Hemalatha, Mayank Aggarwal 24 Jul 2018

Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jul 2018

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