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Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation

Claire Salisbury 13 May 2016

Battling India’s Sand Barons

Sibi Arasu 11 May 2016

Brazil’s Congress moves ahead to end nation’s environmental safeguards

Sue Branford 5 May 2016

Ethics, sustainability, and Amazon hydropower: mission impossible?

Claire Salisbury 4 May 2016

Could conservation education in virtual reality help change the real world?

Julia John 3 May 2016

Lake Maracaibo: an oil development sacrifice zone dying from neglect

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 3 May 2016

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

Claire Salisbury 22 Apr 2016

Gold mining ramps up, pushes deeper into Peruvian reserve

Morgan Erickson-Davis 22 Apr 2016

Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands

Sue Branford 21 Apr 2016

Four dams to be removed from Klamath River in Oregon and California

Mike Gaworecki 15 Apr 2016

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

Sue Branford 6 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

Protests continue amid signs that controversial Borneo dam cancelled

Rod Harbinson 29 Mar 2016

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

Sue Branford 29 Mar 2016

Controversial dam officially canceled in Borneo after indigenous protests

Mongabay.com 28 Mar 2016

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

Sue Branford 24 Mar 2016

Another catastrophe: Ship carrying 1,235 metric tons of coal sinks in Sundarbans

Shreya Dasgupta 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

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

‘Sitting on the edge of a knife’: Deforestation ramps up in Queensland

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Feb 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

Bangladesh sticks with coal power plant project despite major backlash

Apoorva Joshi 16 Feb 2016

Aceh citizens ask governor to keep bulldozers out of a crucial rainforest

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Feb 2016

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

Mike Gaworecki 11 Feb 2016

Managing fish stock –and fishermen– along Brazil’s Canaticu River

Jenny Gonzales 2 Feb 2016

Imperiled Amazon freshwater ecosystems urgently need basin-wide study, management

Claire Salisbury 1 Feb 2016

Brazilian court suspends operating license for Belo Monte dam

Glenn Scherer 15 Jan 2016

Scientists sound alarm over hydropower’s impacts on tropical fish biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2016

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