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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

Here comes progress: what will planned megaprojects mean for an Amazon city?

Bruno Fonseca 31 Mar 2015

Study finds roads in Southeast Asia may be devastating forests, wildlife

Ariel Mark 20 Mar 2015

Road rage: scientists denounce $60 trillion infrastructure expansion

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 14 Mar 2015

Scientists warn G20 that $60 trillion infrastructure plan is “doubling down on a dangerous vision”

Jeremy Hance 13 Mar 2015

Company run Sarawak governor has amassed $1.4B in state infrastructure contracts

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2015

New film highlights local resistance to Nicaragua’s canal

Jeremy Hance 11 Dec 2014

Is the Gran Canal really a ‘big Christmas present’ for Nicaraguans?

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

Nicaragua Canal could cause ecological disaster, warn experts

Mongabay.com 20 Feb 2014

Proposed rail and road projects could devastate Nepal’s tigers and rhinos

Jeremy Hance 6 Feb 2014

Roads could help protect the environment rather than destroy it, argues Nature paper

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Mar 2013

Richard Leakey: ‘selfish’ critics choose wrong fight in Serengeti road

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2011

Unpaved road through Serengeti to progress

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2011

Activists target Brazil’s largest driver of deforestation: cattle ranching

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2009

Brazil to boost spending on infrastructure to counter economic crisis

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2009

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