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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

Stop importing illegal timber, PNG activists tell China at APEC Summit

John Cannon 22 Nov 2018

‘Punished’: Bolivian communities opposed to highway cry foul over neglect

Iván Paredes Tamayo 22 Nov 2018

New dam set to spoil Sumatran wonderland (commentary)

Gregory McCann, Haray Sampurna Munthe 20 Nov 2018

Purus-Madeira: the Amazon arc of deforestation marches north

Gustavo Faleiros, Marcio Isensee e Sá 20 Nov 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Nov 2018
Kelp. Image courtesy of NOAA.

Latam Eco Review: Rampant roadkill and shrinking seaweed stocks

Mongabay.com 16 Nov 2018

For APEC’s poorest member, flashy cars point to another boondoggle

Lucy EJ Woods 16 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Hungry manatees and grand theft tortoise

Mongabay.com 9 Nov 2018

China increasingly involved in Brazil’s ambitious Amazon rail network

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Nov 2018

Roads divide opinions along with forests, study finds

John Cannon 8 Nov 2018

Troika of trouble for Bolivia’s Cordillera de Sama Reserve

Mongabay Latam 8 Nov 2018

Evicted for a showpiece project, this PNG community fights for justice

Lucy EJ Woods 8 Nov 2018

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Anna Sophie Gross 7 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Killing jaguars for arthritis creams and wine

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2018

Call to protect dwindling wilderness ‘before it disappears forever’

John Cannon 1 Nov 2018

Colombia: Dying of thirst, Wayuu blame mine, dam, drought for water woes

Lucy Sherriff 1 Nov 2018

Chile mine and port project nears approval despite scientific opposition

Michelle Carrere 31 Oct 2018

Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 24 Oct 2018

Amazon and climate science threatened if Bolsonaro elected Brazil’s president (commentary)

17 Latin American scientists 23 Oct 2018

Study warns of dire ecological, social fallout from Sumatran dam

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2018

Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Oct 2018

Environmental delegation blocked from entering Bolivian national park

Miriam Telma Jemio 22 Oct 2018

Guyana deforestation rate hits 7-year low, officials say

Carinya Sharples 19 Oct 2018

Bolivian coca crops follow a planned highway through indigenous lands

Iván Paredes Tamayo 19 Oct 2018

Jair Bolsonaro: looming threat to the Amazon and global climate?

Jenny Gonzales 18 Oct 2018

Real-time plantation map aims to throttle deforestation in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Oct 2018

Fate of the Amazon is on the ballot in Brazil’s presidential election (commentary)

Aline C. Soterroni, Fernando M. Ramos, Michael Obersteiner, Stephen Polasky 17 Oct 2018
Aloisio Sampaio, a trade unionist known as Alenquer, the leader of the KM Mil landless peasant occupation. He was murdered on 11 October. Image by Thais Borges.

Landless movement leader assassinated in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Oct 2018

Amazonia and the setbacks of Brazil’s political moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Oct 2018

Dam project pushes threatened orangutans from forest to farms

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2018

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