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Promised US$1 billion in Belo Monte dam compensation largely unpaid?

Carolina Torres 12 Aug 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Using Big Data to combat the illegal timber trade in Brazil

Mike Gaworecki 10 Aug 2016

Peru’s new environmental policies: What are they and will they work?

Justin Catanoso 5 Aug 2016
Etnias, a 620-foot long mural in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, representing indigenous people from five continents by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra. The mural was commissioned for the Olympics. Photo by Agência Brasil Fotografias.

Olympics to begin amid rising violence against Brazil’s indigenous people

Sandra Cuffe 4 Aug 2016
Google Earth image showing the site for the São Luiz do Tapajós dam.

Environmental licence for São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam denied

Sue Branford 4 Aug 2016

Tapajós dams may bring fish kills, species loss, mercury contamination

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 2 Aug 2016

Study: Drought impedes tree growth, shuts down Amazon carbon sink

Claire Asher 21 Jul 2016

Cattle driving big forest loss in Peru’s ‘under-appreciated’ Amazon

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2016

Huge cacao plantation in Peru illegally developed on forest-zoned land

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Jul 2016

NASA images show the Amazon could be facing an intense wildfire season this year

Mike Gaworecki 15 Jul 2016

Scientists compile list of all known Amazon tree species, say it could take three centuries to find the rest

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jul 2016

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Sue Branford 13 Jul 2016

Even reduced-impact logging in the Amazon may be unsustainable

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2016

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Claire Salisbury 12 Jul 2016

Bolivian expedition discovers 1,000th bird species

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Jul 2016

Pre-Columbian Amazon settlement primarily ate fish — more sustainable?

Claire Salisbury 8 Jul 2016

Deforestation from illegal gold mining spreads to northern Peru

Apoorva Joshi 7 Jul 2016

Illegal gold mining causing mercury contamination in indigenous groups

Carolina Torres 7 Jul 2016

Small time land speculators profit in advance of Amazon dams

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 5 Jul 2016

Western Amazonian and Andean forests don’t follow the ecosystem “rules” — here’s why that’s important

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jun 2016

Forest degradation in Brazil can have just as drastic an impact on biodiversity as deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jun 2016
Andy Muñoz of the Marañón Defense Front watches crude drip from a stick he dipped into the stream. Photo by Barbara Fraser.

Communities brace for impact of Peruvian oil spill

Barbara Fraser 29 Jun 2016

Scientists are developing useful new tools for surveying elusive rainforest mammals

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jun 2016

Facing controversy, Peruvian palm oil firm seeks sale of its Amazon rainforest holdings

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2016
Google Map showing location of Barranca, Peru.

Health officials in Peru: oil spill cleanup workers face ‘poisoning and burns’

Barbara Fraser 27 Jun 2016
Workers scoop oil out a stream near Chiriaco, in northern Peru, where crude spilled from a pipeline in late January. Photo by Barbara Fraser.

Amazon oil spill puts Peruvian communities at risk

Barbara Fraser, Milton López Tarabochia 26 Jun 2016

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

Claire Salisbury 21 Jun 2016

Search warrant executed at Global Plywood over alleged Lacey Act violations

Mike Gaworecki 20 Jun 2016

The prosecutor who lassoed deforestation

Eduardo Pegurier 15 Jun 2016

Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land

Sue Branford 6 Jun 2016

Watch video of an electric eel attack

Mike Gaworecki 6 Jun 2016

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Claire Salisbury 6 Jun 2016

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