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Cerrado: appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes

Analysis: the Brazilian Supreme Court’s New Forest Code ruling

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Brazil high court Forest Code ruling largely bad for environment, Amazon: NGOs

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Brazilian Supreme Court ruling protects Quilombola land rights for now

Venezuela: can a failing state protect its environment and its people?

Maduro seeks sell off of Venezuela’s natural resources to escape debt – analysis

Pope’s message to Amazonia inspires hope, but will it bring action?

Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

Venezuela’s Mining Arc boom sweeps up Indigenous people and cultures

Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses

Brazil 2018: Amazon under attack, resistance grows, courts to act, elections

Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy

Top 20 forest stories of 2017

How a hunger for teeth is driving a bat toward extinction

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Chainsaws imperil an old-growth mangrove stronghold in southern Myanmar

Selective logging reduces biodiversity, disrupts Amazon ecosystems: study

Amazon dam impacts underestimated due to overlooked vine growth: study

Mine tailings dam failures major cause of environmental disasters: report

EU-LatAm trade deal good for agribusiness; bad for Amazon, climate – analysis

Latin America-Europe trade pact to include historic indigenous rights clause

Nigeria pledges to restore nearly 10 million acres of degraded land

Militarization and mining a dangerous mix in Venezuelan Amazon

Ferrogrão grain railway threatens Amazon indigenous groups, forest

Damming or damning the Amazon: Assessing Ecuador / China cooperation

$2 billion investment in forest restoration announced at COP23

From carbon sink to source: Brazil puts Amazon, Paris goals at risk

As negotiators meet in Bonn, Brazil’s carbon emissions rise

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