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Catastrophic fires sweep through iconic Brazilian national park

Anna Sophie Gross 2 Nov 2017

Mining activity causing nearly 10 percent of Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 2 Nov 2017

Temer offers amnesty, erasing up to $2.1 billion in environmental crime fines

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 Oct 2017

Sumatran region heats up as forests disappear

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Oct 2017

Brazilian police nab Amazon timber thieves who faked forest credits

Jenny Gonzales 27 Oct 2017

Suite of free, open-source tools to help even non-experts monitor large-scale land use change

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 Oct 2017

Could fungi provide an alternative to palm oil?

Kimberley Brown 19 Oct 2017

Amazonian manatee migration at risk from disruption by proposed dams

Claire Salisbury 19 Oct 2017

Munduruku standoff against Amazon dam builders potentially explosive

Sue Branford, Fernanda Moreira, Mauricio Torres 17 Oct 2017
Manolo Miranda, an indigenous leader recently acquitted of charges in a suit brought by the Barro Blanco dam's construction company, at a protest over the dam in August, 2016. Photo by Camilo Mejia Geraldo for Mongabay.

Indigenous group scores legal victory as dam floods their lands

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 12 Oct 2017

Amazon deforestation linked to McDonald’s and British retail giants

Anna Sophie Gross, Daniel Gross 4 Oct 2017

Amazon community on Tapajós River invaded by wildcat miners

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres, Ailen Vega 2 Oct 2017

Brazil: a world champion in political and environmental devastation (commentary)

Giem Guimaraes 29 Sep 2017

Temer walks back plan to open Denmark-sized area of Amazon to mining

Jenny Gonzales 27 Sep 2017

Amazon dam operator defies order to shut down, police action looms

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2017

Andes dams could threaten food security for millions in Amazon basin

Claire Asher 19 Sep 2017

Belo Monte dam installation license suspended, housing inadequacy cited

Zoe Sullivan 19 Sep 2017

Transformance: Finding common ground in the Amazon (commentary)

Gus Greenstein 12 Sep 2017

Uncontacted Amazon indigenous groups reportedly attacked by outsiders

Barbara Fraser 11 Sep 2017

A lingering ‘legacy’: Deforestation warms climate more than expected

Mongabay.com 8 Sep 2017

Zero tolerance of deforestation likely only way to save Amazon gateway

Claire Asher 7 Sep 2017

Indigenous communities resist Chinese mining in Amazonian Ecuador

Max Nathanson 5 Sep 2017

Temer’s Amazon mining decrees derided by protestors, annulled by judge

Zoe Sullivan 30 Aug 2017

Intact forests crucial to Amazon ecosystem resilience, stable climate

Claire Salisbury 28 Aug 2017

Quilombolas’ community land rights under attack by Brazilian ruralists

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 25 Aug 2017

Temer pays back ruralists: opens Brazil, Amazon to mining, say critics

Zoe Sullivan 24 Aug 2017

Indigenous groups win key land rights victory in Brazil’s Supreme Court

Sue Branford 17 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Indians on the march in last ditch effort to stop land theft

Sue Branford 14 Aug 2017

Brazilian firm wants to build new dams in Amazon’s Aripuanã basin

Sue Branford 10 Aug 2017

HydroCalculator: new, free, online tool helps citizens assess dams

Claire Salisbury 7 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Aug 2017

Landless Workers Movement protest occupies farms of Brazil’s elite

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jul 2017

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