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Judge suspends Brazil’s monster dam: contractor ‘imposing’ its interests

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2011

First strike against illegal gold mining in Peru: military destroys miners’ boats

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2011

Researchers rediscover one of the world’s most sought-after lost frogs

Jeremy Hance 17 Feb 2011

Worldwide search for ‘lost frogs’ ends with 4% success, but some surprises

Jeremy Hance 16 Feb 2011

Half a million people sign petition against Belo Monte, Brazilian mega-dam

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2011

Monitoring deforestation: an interview with Brazilian space researcher Gilberto Camara

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Feb 2011

Chief financier of Belo Monte dam ties social and environmental requirements to controversial project

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2011

Two massive droughts evidence that climate change is ‘playing Russian roulette’ with Amazon

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2011

Brazilian mining giant buys Amazon palm oil company

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2011

Paradise & Paradox: a semester in Ecuador

An Essaymichael Rudolph 2 Feb 2011

Incredible new photos of uncontacted tribe in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2011

Despite fierce opposition, work begins on Belo Monte dam

Jeremy Hance 27 Jan 2011

Cocaine production killing Colombia’s rainforests

Emily Kirkland 24 Jan 2011

Brazil’s environment chief resigns over controversial Amazon dam

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2011

Renewed conflict between tribes and oil companies looms in Peru

Emily Kirkland 6 Jan 2011

Environmental atlas highlights human impact in Latin America and Caribbean

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Dec 2010

Agricultural lending jumps in Brazil, will Amazon deforestation follow?

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2010

Climate change could cut premontane forests of Argentina and Bolivia in half

Jeremy Hance 19 Dec 2010

Lack of schools, trade drive exodus from remote parts of the Amazon

Soizic Le Courtois 17 Dec 2010

Amazon tribe establishes first indigenous forest carbon fund

Steve Zwick Of Ecosystem Marketplace 4 Dec 2010

2,700 sq km of Brazil’s most endangered rainforest destroyed in 8 years

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2010

Brazil’s largest national bank signs zero deforestation pact for Amazon soy

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2010

‘Environmental and social aggression’: oil exploration threatens award-winning marine protected area

Jeremy Hance 1 Dec 2010

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate falls to lowest on record

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2010

Good stewards of forests at home outsource deforestation abroad

Jeremy Hance 24 Nov 2010

Record number of nations hit all time temperature highs

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2010

Oil, indigenous people, and Ecuador’s big idea

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2010

New population of Critically Endangered monkey discovered

Jeremy Hance 22 Nov 2010

50 NGOS tell big oil to get out of uncontacted natives’ territory

Jeremy Hance 21 Nov 2010

Pictures: ‘Mr. Burns’ frog discovered in Colombia along with 2 other new species

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2010

Ecotourism brings home the bacon in the Peruvian Amazon

Catherine Meyers 15 Nov 2010

Evo Morales for the Nobel Prize?

Nikolas Kozloff 11 Nov 2010

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