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Alcoa mine to clear 25,000 acres of rainforest, suck 133,407 gallons of water per hour from the Amazon

Forest people set up logging blockades in Borneo

Chinese companies to be held liable for environmental damage caused overseas

Chevron expects to lose $27B suit but will refuse to pay damages

Are we on the brink of saving rainforests?

China to support greener palm oil

Indonesia releases revenue sharing rules for REDD forest carbon projects

Multinational corporation continues destruction of orangutan habitat in Indonesia

Companies benefit from reducing conflict with local people

Brazil approves land tenure law that grants 260,000 sq mi of rainforest to settlers, speculators

Implications of the American Clean Energy and Security Act for conservation

Global warming bill passes the House

Scientists call on Obama for ‘maximum personal leadership’ to combat global warming

Peru revokes decrees that sparked Amazon Indian uprising

Peru suspends decree that triggered bloody conflict between Indians and police

Marine scientist calls for abstaining from seafood to save oceans

Another milestone in Afghanistan: listing of endangered species

Oil or Death in the Amazon

Peruvian police kill 10 Indians in battle over Amazon oil drilling

Tribes in Peru to get $0.68/acre for protecting Amazon forest

Brazil’s plan to save the Amazon rainforest

Political infighting in Brazil threatens the Amazon rainforest

US responsible for 29 percent of greenhouse gas emissions over past 150 years

Indigenous people, forest communities in Africa control less than 2% of forest land

Chevron faces shareholder rebuke on claims by Amazon rainforest Indians

Peru may take military action against Indians protesting Amazon energy development

Obama to increase fuel economy standard to 35 mpg by 2016

Brazil moves closer to legitimizing illegal land-grab in the Amazon

The EU and Republic of Congo announce system to eradicate illegal logging

As wolves face the gun, flawed science taints decision to remove species from ESA

Obama administration overturns rule that weakened Endangered Species Act

Indigenous forest management offers lessons in fighting global warming

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