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

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

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

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

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

Monitoring deforestation: an interview with Brazilian space researcher Gilberto Camara

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

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

Brazilian mining giant buys Amazon palm oil company

Paradise & Paradox: a semester in Ecuador

Incredible new photos of uncontacted tribe in the Amazon

Despite fierce opposition, work begins on Belo Monte dam

Cocaine production killing Colombia’s rainforests

Brazil’s environment chief resigns over controversial Amazon dam

Renewed conflict between tribes and oil companies looms in Peru

Environmental atlas highlights human impact in Latin America and Caribbean

Agricultural lending jumps in Brazil, will Amazon deforestation follow?

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

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

Amazon tribe establishes first indigenous forest carbon fund

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

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

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

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate falls to lowest on record

Good stewards of forests at home outsource deforestation abroad

Record number of nations hit all time temperature highs

Oil, indigenous people, and Ecuador’s big idea

New population of Critically Endangered monkey discovered

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

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

Ecotourism brings home the bacon in the Peruvian Amazon

Evo Morales for the Nobel Prize?

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