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Norway sovereign fund drops coal, tar sands, gold-mining companies

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2015

The Amazon’s oil boom: concessions cover a Chile-sized bloc of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2015

Amazon tribe attacks oilfield in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2015

Ecuador sends aid money back to Germany over planned rainforest visit

Jeremy Hance 23 Dec 2014

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler 23 Dec 2014

Children ‘clean’ oil spill with kitchen utensils in the Sundarbans

Jeremy Hance 15 Dec 2014

Indigenous communities ‘among the very few best protectors’ of Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 12 Dec 2014

Relief for Kenya’s rare coastal forest

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Dec 2014

How an indigenous community in Ecuador stood up to big oil – and won

Julian Moll-rocek 5 Dec 2014

Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

Peru has massive opportunity to avoid emissions from deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2014

Turning point for Peru’s forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2014

Climate coup: Rockefeller announces they are dropping fossil fuel investments

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2014

More trouble with tar sands: oil extraction leading to big forest loss in Alberta

Dr Liz Kimbrough 29 Aug 2014

Peruvian oil spill sparks concern in indigenous rainforest community

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2014

Deforestation ramping up in Yasuni as Ecuador sets to open up national park to drilling

Shaira Panela 29 Jul 2014

Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investment

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2014

Oil, wildlife, and people: competing visions of development collide in Virunga National Park

Analysis Daniel Stiles 7 Jul 2014

Camera trap captures first ever video of rarely-seen bird in the Amazon…and much more

Jeremy Hance 17 Jun 2014

What does SOCO’s withdrawal really mean for the future of Virunga National Park?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 17 Jun 2014

Oil drilling causes widespread contamination in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jun 2014

Extractive industries and apes

Daniel Stiles 13 Jun 2014

What’s an environmental journalist to do with so much good news?

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2014

Oil overthrow: Soco to suspend operations in Virunga National Park after sustained campaign by WWF

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2014

Oil company breaks agreement, builds big roads in Yasuni rainforest

Jeremy Hance 5 Jun 2014

After throwing out referendum, Ecuador approves oil drilling in Yasuni’s embattled heart

Jeremy Hance 2 Jun 2014

31 activists arrested attempting to stop Arctic oil from docking in Europe

Jeremy Hance 1 May 2014

Stolen information may derail Yasuni drilling referendum

Robin Llewellyn 30 Apr 2014

Ecuador will have referendum on fate of Yasuni after activists collect over 700,000 signatures

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2014

Featured video: celebrities speak out for Yasuni

Jeremy Hance 2 Apr 2014

Oil or rainforest: new website highlights the plight of Yasuni National Park

Jeremy Hance 20 Mar 2014

Europe votes for an Arctic Sanctuary

Jeremy Hance 13 Mar 2014

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