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Zero tolerance of deforestation likely only way to save Amazon gateway

Claire Asher 7 Sep 2017

Indigenous communities resist Chinese mining in Amazonian Ecuador

Max Nathanson 5 Sep 2017

Temer’s Amazon mining decrees derided by protestors, annulled by judge

Zoe Sullivan 30 Aug 2017

Study examines sex-specific responses of Neotropical bats to habitat fragmentation

Mike Gaworecki 2 Aug 2017

Visualizing the impacts of human disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jul 2017

Orangutans find home in degraded forests

John Cannon 24 Jul 2017

Charcoal and cattle ranching tearing apart the Gran Chaco

John Cannon 19 Jul 2017

Deforestation vs. Degradation: How we underestimate tropical forest greenhouse gas emissions

Neha Jain 2 Mar 2017

Forest advocates say zero-carbon goals too reliant on unrealistic tech

Justin Catanoso 15 Nov 2016

Restoring degraded land could mean big financial gains for Latin America

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Nov 2016
A cook fries potato chips using charcoal at the Salama Guest House on the Kenyan side of Namanga. Photo by Nathan Siegel

In a border town, a favorite African fuel has an uncertain future

Nathan Siegel 3 Nov 2016

Exclusive: Rainforest rapidly cleared for sugarcane in Bolivia

Eduardo Franco Berton 12 Oct 2016
Mountains near Machu Picchu in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Peru’s REDD+ conservation efforts paying off

Dan Collyns 6 Oct 2016

China’s reforestation program a letdown for wildlife, study finds

Benji Jones 27 Sep 2016

Gold mining ramps up, pushes deeper into Peruvian reserve

Morgan Erickson-Davis 22 Apr 2016

New research sets doomsday for Indo-Pacific mangroves

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Oct 2015

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