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Resource wars: Brazilian gold miners go up against indigenous people

Zoe Sullivan 15 Dec 2016

Brazil’s dispossessed: Belo Monte dam ruinous for indigenous cultures

Zoe Sullivan 8 Dec 2016

Brazil pledges ‘largest restoration commitment ever made’

John Cannon 8 Dec 2016

The media megaphone: does it help curb bad infrastructure projects?

Daniel Pye, Alice Cuddy 7 Dec 2016

Brazil: deforestation in the Amazon increased 29% over last year

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Nov 2016

A dam shame: the plight of the Mekong giant catfish

Claire Asher 30 Nov 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016

Peru rainforest lost to illegal gold mining eclipses 10 Manhattans

Benji Jones 24 Nov 2016

Peruvian Melka group palm oil production company withdraws from RSPO

Milton López Tarabochia 22 Nov 2016

Amazon oil spill impacts indigenous villages on Teles Pires River

Zoe Sullivan 21 Nov 2016

Tracking down logging roads in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 20 Nov 2016

Gold mining invades new areas of Peruvian Amazon

Benji Jones 11 Nov 2016

Hunting stymies rainforest regrowth, says a new study

John Cannon 10 Nov 2016

New talks on oil pollution could end indigenous blockade of Amazonian river in Peru

Barbara Fraser 9 Nov 2016

Higher incomes driving Indonesian smallholders to oil palm and rubber

John Cannon 3 Nov 2016

Thirst for coltan, gold threatens Venezuelan forests, indigenous lands

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Oct 2016

Brazzaville-issued mining permits dip into Congo’s flagship park

John Cannon 31 Oct 2016

Logged but not out: Altered landscapes important for conservation

John Cannon 26 Oct 2016

Another pipeline spill reported in Peruvian Amazon as indigenous protests enter eighth week

Barbara Fraser 25 Oct 2016

Lakes in community hands spur gains for people and fish

John Cannon 20 Oct 2016

Study finds Brazil isn’t counting all deforestation in official estimates

Mike Gaworecki 19 Oct 2016

Illegal Myanmar teak importation widespread to EU, investigation finds

John Cannon 19 Oct 2016

Violence against indigenous people high, as land conflicts heat up

Carolina Torres 18 Oct 2016

Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford 17 Oct 2016

Barro Blanco dam in limbo after Ngäbe-Bugle Congress rejects agreement

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 14 Oct 2016

Brazil pledges to cut carbon, but government policies say otherwise

Jenny Gonzales 6 Oct 2016
Hundreds of indigenous people from villages along River Marañon gathered at Saramuro, where Petroperu Station 1 is based, staging a protest against Petroperu and the government. Photo by Ann Wang

A photographer’s journey into a Peruvian oil spill

Ann Wang 3 Oct 2016

U.S. imports of Amazon crude oil driving expansion of oil operations

Mike Gaworecki 30 Sep 2016

Amazon radio network unites regional opposition to Tapajós basin dams

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2016

Forests in Colombia fall victim to illegal coca plantations

María Lourdes Zimmermann 16 Sep 2016
Progression of deforestation in Bahuaja-Sonene National Park. Image courtesy of MAAP. Data from Planet, Digital Globe (Nextview)

Illegal deforestation hits three regions of Peru

Milton López Tarabochia 15 Sep 2016
Sime Darby plantation in Cape Mount County. Photo courtesy JPN Liberia

Liberia land policy a ‘challenge to national development’

Mark M. Dahn 14 Sep 2016

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