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Amazon mega-dam suspended, providing hope for indigenous people and biodiversity

Claire Salisbury 22 Apr 2016

Half of World Heritage Sites threatened by ‘harmful industrial activities’, new report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2016

BNDES Speaks Out: giant Brazilian bank offers rare in-depth interview

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2016

Report from the Amazon #5: Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect the environment they love

Sue Branford 4 Apr 2016

BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

Sue Branford 29 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #4: Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle

Sue Branford 24 Mar 2016

Ecuadorean government aims to stop one road from going into Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 21 Mar 2016

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

Sue Branford 14 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #2: Newly created conservation unit could push long-time residents from their lands

Sue Branford 11 Mar 2016

Giant development bank’s social and environmental safeguards called into question by critics

Sue Branford 9 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #1: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford 4 Mar 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Benjamin Blocksom translator, Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

CEO and execs charged with homicide in Samarco dam collapse in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 25 Feb 2016

Bangladesh sticks with coal power plant project despite major backlash

Apoorva Joshi 16 Feb 2016

Brazil’s Senate could soon be voting against the country’s environmental safeguards

Jenny Gonzales 16 Feb 2016

Jakarta governor proposes lighter environmental permitting

Melati Kaye 15 Feb 2016

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Guilherme Rosa from Repórter Brasil, Benjamin Blocksom translator 8 Feb 2016

A railroad that crosses the Amazon could be an infeasible, expensive dream for Peru

Barbara Fraser 4 Feb 2016

Mining company executives indicted in Brazil over the country’s largest environmental disaster

Jenny Gonzales 14 Jan 2016

Corruption guided award of huge Amazon dam contracts in Brazil

Sue Branford 13 Jan 2016

Another challenge to the Nicaragua Canal: indigenous community refuses to turn over their territories

Ruxandra Guidi 12 Jan 2016

Controversial Nicaragua canal on hold

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2015

Roads to ruin: Africa’s massive infrastructure expansions could have major consequences

John Cannon 25 Nov 2015

Superhighway construction surges forward in Nigeria

John Cannon 17 Nov 2015

The Manu road in Peru: separate paths of development and conservation

Guest Commentary 5 Oct 2015

More than 40 tourists kidnapped – then freed – by indigenous community that demands construction of a freeway in Madre de Dios

Ruxandra Guidi 25 Sep 2015

Private sector innovations reduce food loss in West Africa

Margaret Egbula 1 Jun 2015

Together we stand: A policy approach to reducing food loss in West Africa

Margaret Egbula 28 May 2015

China unveils plans for huge railway in South America

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 May 2015

China defends trans-Amazon railway, says it will protect the environment

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 May 2015

‘Green’ hydropower dam fuels charges of gross human rights violations

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2015

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