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

Jeremy Hance 20 Mar 2014

Scientist discovers a plethora of new praying mantises (pictures)

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2014

Several Amazonian tree frog species discovered, where only two existed before

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 18 Mar 2014

Will zero deforestation commitments save Indonesia’s forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Mar 2014

Mother of God: meet the 26 year old Indiana Jones of the Amazon, Paul Rosolie

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2014

Controversial Amazon dams may have exacerbated biblical flooding

Jeremy Hance 16 Mar 2014

Photos: Weird aquatic lizard discovered in mountain streams of Peru

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2014

Amazon trees super-diverse in chemicals

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2014

Sharp jump in deforestation when Amazon parks lose protected status

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Mar 2014

Is Brazil’s epic drought a taste of the future?

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2014

New $20,000 reporting grant explores benefits of Amazonian protected areas

Mongabay.org 21 Feb 2014

The making of Amazon Gold: once more unto the breach

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 19 Feb 2014

Featured video: camera traps catch jaguars, anteaters, and a sloth eating clay in the Amazon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 13 Feb 2014

Helping the Amazon’s ‘Jaguar People’ protect their culture and traditional wisdom

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Feb 2014

Drought, fire reducing ability of Amazon rainforest to store carbon

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2014

Amazon rainforest does not ‘green up’ during the dry season

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2014

Gas company to drill in Manu National Park buffer zone, imperiling indigenous people

David Hill 4 Feb 2014

287 amphibian and reptile species in Peruvian park sets world record (photos)

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jan 2014

High-living frogs hurt by remote oil roads in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 14 Jan 2014

Brazil begins evicting illegal settlers from hugely-imperiled indigenous reserve

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2014

Rainforest news review for 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Dec 2013

Assassination 25 years ago catalyzed movement to protect the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2013

Indigenous groups win right to pursue Chevron assets in Canada in Amazon pollution case

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2013

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2013

Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir

Jeremy Hance 16 Dec 2013

Ecuador’s government shuts down indigenous rights organization over oil battle

Jeremy Hance 10 Dec 2013

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2013

The quicksilver demon: rogue gold-mining is the world’s largest source of mercury pollution

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 20 Nov 2013

Why is Amazon deforestation climbing?

Daniel Nepstad 17 Nov 2013

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon jumps 28% in 2013

Mongabay.com 14 Nov 2013

Powered by Google, high resolution forest map reveals massive deforestation worldwide

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2013

Flawed from inception? Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT initiative threatened indigenous groups with simple mapping errors

Nsikan Akpan 13 Nov 2013

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