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Carbon market may fund dam in Panama that threatens natural reserve

Amazon deforestation jumps 69% in 2008

Indian protesters win land rights battle against Peru’s President Garcia

Palm oil producers in Indonesia reject moratorium on forest destruction

Two large populations of endangered monkeys discovered in Cambodia

Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable ‘urban’ society

Biofuels 200 times more expensive than forest conservation for global warming mitigation

China’s log imports fall 19% in first half of 2008 due to high prices

Haze risk returns as fires increase in Indonesia

Malaysia targets Africa and the Amazon for oil palm expansion

How do wind turbines kill bats?

Google Earth reveals cattle have a built-in compass

Climate change may increase global conflict

Malaysia’s rainforest logging plan may proceed despite risk to water supplies

Biofuel production in Brazil may not hurt Amazon, food supply

There is enough water for everyone provided it is well-managed and distributed

In Peru, a showdown between the president and tribes over mining and drilling in the Amazon

Brazil may allow mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon

Brazil to establish oil palm plantations on degraded Amazon rainforest lands

Google, Australia give big boost to geothermal power production

Coal burning may make food supplies toxic

The long-ignored ocean emergency and what can be done to address it

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

Indonesia’s Riau bans destruction of rainforests and peatlands for palm oil

Algae could yield 30 times more biofuel than soybeans, while cleaning the environment

PG&E will build the world’s largest solar power plant

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon won’t increase significantly for 2008

Marine ‘dead zones’ double every decade

Investors seek profit from conserving rainforest biodiversity

High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction

Oil development could destroy the most biodiverse part of the Amazon

Climate change to hurt Brazil’s farm exports by 2020

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