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Booming soy industry could threaten Brazil’s climate commitments, researchers warn

Mike Gaworecki 3 May 2016

Peru’s climate commitments threatened by advancing oil palm

Milton López Tarabochia 28 Apr 2016

Illegal logging “mafia” arrested in Peru

Mike Gaworecki 27 Apr 2016

Amazon mega-dam suspended, providing hope for indigenous people and biodiversity

Claire Salisbury 22 Apr 2016

Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands

Sue Branford 21 Apr 2016

Major Brazilian supermarket chain will stop stocking Amazon-destroying beef

Mike Gaworecki 14 Apr 2016

Brazil’s Cerrado region: A new tropical deforestation hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 8 Apr 2016

BNDES Speaks Out: giant Brazilian bank offers rare in-depth interview

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2016

Indigenous Brazilians under threat from killings and resource projects: UN Rapporteur

Sandra Cuffe 4 Apr 2016

Report from the Amazon #5: Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect the environment they love

Sue Branford 4 Apr 2016
CRabin_Pinto_2012 Lúcio Flávio Pinto at home in 2012. Photo courtesy of Lúcio Flávio Pinto.

Amazon journalist endures, despite decades of threats and harassment

Cláudio Rabin 31 Mar 2016

BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

Sue Branford 29 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #4: Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle

Sue Branford 24 Mar 2016

Conservation giant puts $100M into Amazon protected areas

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Mar 2016

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #3: Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business

Sue Branford 16 Mar 2016

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

Sue Branford 14 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #2: Newly created conservation unit could push long-time residents from their lands

Sue Branford 11 Mar 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Mato Grosso leading the fight against climate change and deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 10 Mar 2016

Giant development bank’s social and environmental safeguards called into question by critics

Sue Branford 9 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #1: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford 4 Mar 2016

Want to keep tabs on that new logging road in Peru? Well, now you can

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Mar 2016

A forest full of beetles: an interview with bug researcher Caroline Chaboo

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Mar 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

The dangers of China’s ‘thumb monkey’ trend

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Feb 2016

Eight newly discovered species of whip spiders could soon become extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Feb 2016

77 inspiring rainforest pictures

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Feb 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016

Secondary forests offer big opportunity to fight global warming

Mike Gaworecki 12 Feb 2016

Peruvian Amazon will get wetter and experience more severe floods, threatening wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 11 Feb 2016

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Guilherme Rosa from Repórter Brasil, Benjamin Blocksom translator 8 Feb 2016

Drop in commodity prices isn’t necessarily helping indigenous peoples and the environment in Brazil

Carolina Torres 8 Feb 2016

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