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Brazil’s deforestation at record low from 2011-2012

Photos: Chinese leopard wins camera trap contest

Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million

Oil drilling approved for national park in Belize

Colombia gets world’s first VCS validated and verified REDD project on collective lands

Featured video: on-the-ground look at Brazil’s fight against deforestation

New species of bioluminescent cockroach possibly already extinct by volcanic eruption

Happy Halloween: nine new species of tree-climbing tarantula discovered

After seven year search, scientists film cryptic predator in Minas Gerais

El Salvador mulls total ban on mining

Most controversial aspects of Brazil’s new Forest Code vetoed as legislation signed into law

Norway to double carbon tax on oil industry for climate change programs

UNESCO disturbed by gas plans for Peru’s Manu National Park

Indigenous groups re-occupy Belo Monte dam in the Amazon

90 percent of oil palm plantations came at expense of forest in Kalimantan

Photos: new mammal menagerie uncovered in remote Peruvian cloud forest

Jaguar conservation gets a boost in North and Central America

Penguins face a slippery future

Amazon deforestation jumps in August

Cute picture of the day: armadillo carrying baby

Wax palm can be sustainably harvested

Rare birds abound in Brazil’s Acre state

Buffer zones key to survival of maned wolf

Amazon deforestation could trigger drop in rainfall across South America

Forest expands 3% in Colombia during 2000s, but loss grows in llanos region

Bolivia should prioritize cattle ranching, law enforcement in deforestation fight

Survivors say gold miners in helicopter massacred village of 80 in Venezuelan Amazon

Emissions from Amazon deforestation in Brazil fall 57% since 2004

Unidentified poodle moth takes Internet by storm

Brazil’s controversial Belo Monte back on track after court decision overruled

Private reserve safeguards newly discovered frogs in Ecuadorian cloud forest

Construction of controversial Belo Monte dam stopped

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