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Revised Forest Code may cost Brazil climate commitments

Karimeh Moukaddem 14 Jun 2011
Google Earth image showing deforestation frontier in the Brazilian Amazon.

Could palm oil help save the Amazon? (2011)

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jun 2011

Could palm oil help save the Amazon?

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jun 2011

Germany backs out of Yasuni deal

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2011

Can Brazil meet deforestation, climate goals and still grow its cattle industry?

Karimeh Moukaddem 9 Jun 2011

Food security in developing world threatened by climate change

Karimeh Moukaddem 6 Jun 2011

Amazon mega-dam gets final approval

Mongabay.com 1 Jun 2011

Peru to abolish uncontacted tribe’s reserve, says group

Mongabay.com 1 Jun 2011

Assassinations of environmentalists continue in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation rises

Mongabay.com 28 May 2011

Destruction of Brazil’s most endangered forest, the Mata Atlantica, slows

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 May 2011

Amnesty for illegal rainforest loggers moves forward in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 May 2011

Killing in the name of deforestation: Amazon activist and wife assassinated

Jeremy Hance 24 May 2011

Authorities launch stealth operation in Amazon after satellite images reveal deforestation

Karimeh Moukaddem 24 May 2011

Brazil’s new cabinet-level post in response to surge in deforestation

Karimeh Moukaddem 21 May 2011

Climate change and deforestation pose risk to Amazon rainforest

Karimeh Moukaddem 20 May 2011

Uncovering the private lives of Amazon wildlife through camera traps

Jeremy Hance 20 May 2011

Brazil confirms big jump in Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 May 2011

Red rodent shows up at Colombian nature lodge after 113 years on the lam

Jeremy Hance 18 May 2011

Under pressure from rising deforestation, Brazil’s IBAMA establishes ‘Zero Deforestation Policy’ in the Amazon

Karimeh Moukaddem 17 May 2011

Information leak: Amazon deforestation increases sharply while forest code debated

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 May 2011

Violent protests follow approval of massive dam project in Patagonia

Jeremy Hance 16 May 2011

ConocoPhillips withdraws from oil exploitation in uncontacted indigenous territory

Jeremy Hance 11 May 2011

Brazil’s forest code debate may determine fate of the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 5 May 2011

NASA image reveals extent of deforestation in western Brazil

Jeremy Hance 4 May 2011

Controversial Brazilian mega-dam receives investment of $1.4 billion

Jeremy Hance 2 May 2011

World’s largest beef company signs Amazon rainforest pact

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2011

Protected areas cover 44% of the Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Apr 2011

Demand for gold pushing deforestation in Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2011

Brazilian authorities levy $1.2B in fines against beef traders linked to deforestation, slave labor

Mongabay.com 15 Apr 2011

Satellite evidence of deforestation in uncontacted tribe’s territory sparks legal action

Jeremy Hance 12 Apr 2011

Conversion of Brazil’s cerrado slows

Mongabay.com 8 Apr 2011

Indigenous group claims Ecuadorian government complicit in ‘genocide’

Jeremy Hance 6 Apr 2011

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