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Andes dams could threaten food security for millions in Amazon basin

Claire Asher 19 Sep 2017

Belo Monte dam installation license suspended, housing inadequacy cited

Zoe Sullivan 19 Sep 2017

Amazon mining unleashed (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 15 Sep 2017

Ecologist wins Heinz environment prize for airborne mapping that informs policy

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2017

Transformance: Finding common ground in the Amazon (commentary)

Gus Greenstein 12 Sep 2017

Uncontacted Amazon indigenous groups reportedly attacked by outsiders

Barbara Fraser 11 Sep 2017
Bricks of processed gold. Photo via Pixabay.

Guilty pleas entered in South American rainforest gold laundering cases

Genevieve Belmaker 8 Sep 2017

Indigenous communities resist Chinese mining in Amazonian Ecuador

Max Nathanson 5 Sep 2017

Saving the Serranía de San Lucas, a vital link in the ‘jaguar corridor’

Sean Mowbray 1 Sep 2017

Temer’s Amazon mining decrees derided by protestors, annulled by judge

Zoe Sullivan 30 Aug 2017

Intact forests crucial to Amazon ecosystem resilience, stable climate

Claire Salisbury 28 Aug 2017

‘Science needs to catch up’: Deep sea mining looms over unstudied ecosystems

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Aug 2017

Temer pays back ruralists: opens Brazil, Amazon to mining, say critics

Zoe Sullivan 24 Aug 2017

Deforestation from gold mining in Peru continues, despite gov’t crackdowns

John Cannon 22 Aug 2017
An endangered Sambirano mouse lemur (Microcebus sambiranensis), which is found only in two or three small populations in northwest Madagascar, including one on the Ampasindava peninsula. Photo by Leslie Wilmet.

A rare earth mine in Madagascar triggers concerns for locals and lemurs

Mike Gaworecki 22 Aug 2017

Indonesian coal firms shut down for violations fight back in court, with mixed results

Taufik Wijaya 15 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Indians on the march in last ditch effort to stop land theft

Sue Branford 14 Aug 2017

Brazilian firm wants to build new dams in Amazon’s Aripuanã basin

Sue Branford 10 Aug 2017
Three of Colombia’s eight most critically deforested areas lie in Guaviare, one of the country’s departments. Photo courtesy of Semana Sostenible

In Colombia, deforestation gangs run rampant

Antonio José Paz Cardona 8 Aug 2017
The Mittermeier sportive lemur (Lepilemur mittermeieri) is found only on the Ampasindava peninsula. Researchers warn that its population could be harmed if TREM moves ahead. Photo by Leslie Wilmet.

Troubled firm aims to mine Madagascar forest for rare earth elements

Edward Carver 8 Aug 2017

Five instances in which Peru won the battle against deforestation

Milton López Tarabochia 2 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 1 Aug 2017

Western Chimpanzee numbers declined by more than 80 percent over the past quarter century

Mike Gaworecki 31 Jul 2017
A few miners continue to work an old mine called Andasiakondro, where a ruby rush drew some 10,000 people in 2002.

What happens after a mining rush? Photographs from Madagascar

Arnaud De Grave 31 Jul 2017

First ‘intrusions’ into unbroken forests drive pulses of biodiversity loss

John Cannon 28 Jul 2017

2016 was even deadlier for environmental and indigenous activists than 2015

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2017

Illegal mining threatens last remaining habitat of green peafowl in China

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jul 2017

Empowering communities fighting new mines: an interview with filmmaker Jessie Landerman

Caitlin Looby 13 Jul 2017

Coal undermines Indonesia’s food production: report

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 6 Jul 2017

Amazon infrastructure EIAs under-assess biodiversity; scientists offer solutions

Claire Salisbury 6 Jul 2017

‘Tracking Gobi Grizzlies:’ Book excerpt and Q&A with Douglas Chadwick, wildlife biologist and author

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jun 2017

Norway vexed as Brazil sends mixed message on Amazon forest protection

Jenny Gonzales 27 Jun 2017

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