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Deforestation leads to big hikes in local temperature, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 May 2018

Bornean bantengs feeling the heat in logged forests, study finds

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2018

Colombia scraps Amazon highway plans due to deforestation concerns

Taran Volckhausen 23 Mar 2018
Carol Van Strum, winter 2017. Photo courtesy of Peggy Brewster.

Carol Van Strum, crusader against Agent Orange, wins prestigious environmental award

Genevieve Belmaker 14 Mar 2018

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Claire Salisbury 13 Mar 2018

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

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 12 Mar 2018

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 7 Mar 2018

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

Tom Lovejoy, Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

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

Sue Branford 1 Mar 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018

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

Maximo Anderson, Aaron Vincent Elkaim 26 Feb 2018

Tropical forest fragmentation nearing ‘critical point,’ study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Feb 2018

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

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

Brazilian Supreme Court ruling protects Quilombola land rights for now

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 13 Feb 2018

Amazon rainforest hit by surge in small-scale deforestation, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Feb 2018

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

Glenn Scherer 1 Feb 2018

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

Bram Ebus 25 Jan 2018

Smallest wild cat in the Americas faces big problems — but hope exists

Niki Rust 24 Jan 2018

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

Justin Catanoso 22 Jan 2018

Pope set to visit site of deforestation, indigenous struggle in Peru

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2018

680000 acres of Amazon rainforest may be lost to Peru’s new roads

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jan 2018

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

Zoe Sullivan 18 Jan 2018

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

Bram Ebus 15 Jan 2018

Critically endangered monkeys found in Ghana forest slated for mining

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 Jan 2018

Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses

Claire Salisbury 10 Jan 2018

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jan 2018

Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2018

Top 20 forest stories of 2017

Mongabay 29 Dec 2017

How a hunger for teeth is driving a bat toward extinction

Alex Fox 29 Dec 2017

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Dec 2017

Selective logging reduces biodiversity, disrupts Amazon ecosystems: study

Claire Asher 22 Dec 2017

Amazon dam impacts underestimated due to overlooked vine growth: study

Claire Salisbury 20 Dec 2017

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