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Gold mining revs up, eats away more Peruvian rainforest

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Jan 2016

Here Are The Top 15 Environmental Stories of 2015

Mike Gaworecki 30 Dec 2015

One of Brazil’s worst environmental crimes brings into question whether the country’s environmental policies are influenced by large mining companies

Renata Leite Pitman 17 Dec 2015

Damming the Amazon: new hydropower projects put river dolphins at risk

Claire Salisbury 15 Dec 2015

Brazilian environmental NGOs depend heavily on corporate money

Jenny Gonzales 1 Dec 2015

Concern grows for jailed Cambodian activists amid civil rights crackdown

Rod Harbinson 10 Nov 2015

Gold mining boom threatens communities in Suriname

Apoorva Joshi 4 Nov 2015

Gold mining explodes in Suriname, puts forests and people at risk

Apoorva Joshi 30 Oct 2015

After the tsunami, a forest restored along a river in Aceh

Chik Rini 13 Oct 2015

Guatemalan activist murdered after court suspends palm oil company operations

Sandra Cuffe 30 Sep 2015

River supplying Alberta oil sands operations with water at risk from drought

Mike Gaworecki 24 Sep 2015

Scientists find a fix for a ‘frog’s worst nightmare’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Sep 2015

Cambodian dam proceeds despite opposition over fish, ousted villagers

Rod Harbinson 17 Aug 2015

Scientists discover new primate in the embattled heart of the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2015

Mining the heart of the Mother of God: Peru’s gold rush claims more forest

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 4 Aug 2015

Jhuliño’s legacy: Life and death on the Marañon River (photo essay)

Saul Elbein 16 Jul 2015

Amazon Headwaters Under Siege: 19 dams slated for Napo watershed

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2015

Mega-dams doing drastic harm to tropical biodiversity: study

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2015

New solidarity in struggle to protect Turkey’s ‘life spaces’

Jennifer Hattam 19 Jun 2015

It can be done! – Building better dams in the Andean Amazon

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 18 Jun 2015

Tapajós and other Amazon dams not sustainable development say reports

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jun 2015

151 dams could be catastrophic to Amazon ecological connectivity

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 10 Jun 2015

Proposed Andean headwater dams an ecological calamity for Amazon Basin

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 4 Jun 2015

Cajamarca: Let them Eat Gold

Veronica Goyzueta 3 Jun 2015

Brazilian firm’s mega-dam plans in Peru spark major social conflict

David Hill 11 May 2015

Activist deported from Cambodia continues fighting dam from abroad

Rod Harbinson 6 May 2015

Peru’s mega-dam projects threaten Amazon River source and ecosystem collapse

David Hill 28 Apr 2015

Conservation in Myanmar: a cause for optimism?

Hannah Watson 24 Apr 2015

Featured video: ‘A river in dispute’ documentary explores how a planned dam in the Amazon is affecting traditional communities

Agência Pública 15 Apr 2015

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

Barbara Fraser 30 Mar 2015

Conservationists catch-and-release record-smashing freshwater fish

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2015

Photo essay: filming in the remote Amazon

Tristan Thompson 9 Mar 2015

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