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Proposed Andean headwater dams an ecological calamity for Amazon Basin

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 4 Jun 2015

China unveils plans for huge railway in South America

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 May 2015

Primary rainforest cleared for massive palm oil plantations in Peru

John Cannon 20 May 2015

62M ha of Latin American forests cleared for agriculture since 2001

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 May 2015

China’s investment in Latin America taking toll on the environment, setting the stage for conflict

Shreya Dasgupta 18 May 2015

What’s the current deforestation rate in the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 May 2015

New mapping project uncovers road networks in Peru’s primary forests

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 13 May 2015

Peru considers fate of Amazon wildlife paradise

Mongabay.com 8 May 2015

World’s critical habitats lost Connecticut-size area of forest in a decade

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 May 2015

Borneo’s rainforest may get high-tech 3D scan to boost conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 May 2015

Featured video: the Uncharted Amazon trailer

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2015

NASA reveals rise in deforestation in remote Peruvian parks

Mongabay.com 27 Apr 2015

Camera traps catch rare Amazon bird following peccaries

Jeremy Hance 21 Apr 2015

Court rules deforestation of Peruvian rainforest for chocolate was legal

John Cannon 16 Apr 2015

Platform provides near-real time analysis of deforestation in non-Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Apr 2015

9 months after Amazonian oil pipeline spill, effects and fears linger

Barbara Fraser 30 Mar 2015

Photos: expedition to Amazon’s white sands may have found new primate

Jeremy Hance 24 Mar 2015

Road rage: scientists denounce $60 trillion infrastructure expansion

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 14 Mar 2015

Photo essay: filming in the remote Amazon

Tristan Thompson 9 Mar 2015

Researchers propose improvements for Peru’s protected areas

Apoorva Joshi 26 Feb 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

Study finds Peru’s protected areas aren’t where they should be

Apoorva Joshi 25 Feb 2015

‘Sustainable’ cacao company allegedly defies government’s call to halt plantation development

John Cannon 13 Feb 2015

Scientists warn investors on cacao company’s forest destruction in Peru

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2015

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

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2015

Mercury fish: gold mining puts downstream communities at risk in Peru

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2015

Video: camera trap catches jaguar hunting peccaries

Jeremy Hance 26 Jan 2015

Company chops down rainforest to produce ‘sustainable’ chocolate

John Cannon 20 Jan 2015

Amazon gold rush destroying huge swaths of rainforest

John Cannon 14 Jan 2015

Rainforests: 10 things to watch in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2015

2014: the year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2014

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2014

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