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World failing on every environmental issue: an op-ed for Earth Day

Off and on again: Belo Monte dam goes forward, protests planned

Brazil suspends Amazon dam project targeted by Avatar director

Hope for survival as isolated orangutans joined by rope bridge

James Cameron, in real life, fights to save indigenous groups from massive dam construction in Brazil

El Niño in Venezuela: Hugo Chávez’s “Katrina” Moment?

Scientists discover world’s first amphibious insects: Hawaiian caterpillars

Guyana bans gold mining in the ‘Land of the Giants’

Savior of endangered crocodiles dies of malaria

Extinct animals are quickly forgotten: the baiji and shifting baselines

China is polluted: first national survey paints disturbing picture

Forgotten Species: the fiery Luristan Newt

86 percent of dolphins and whales threatened by fishing nets

Bronx Zoo puts ‘extinct’ frogs on display

Environmentalists and indigenous groups decry approval of massive dam in Amazon

Forgotten species: discovering the shimmer of Maathai’s Longleg

Scientists call for an end to mountaintop removal mining in the US

A ‘dangerous world’ for migratory birds, an interview with Sarah Lehnen

Gone: a look at extinction over the past decade

Oil sands pollution in Canada worse than industry and government claim

Guyana expedition finds biodiversity trove in area slated for oil and gas development, an interview with Robert Pickles

High gold prices, army collaboration, play role in mining invasion in southern Venezuela

Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

Forgotten species: Madagascar’s water-loving mammal, the aquatic tenrec

Will Brazil’s blackout drive a new push for more rainforest dams?

China’s Pearl River suffers from “almost impossible to remove” pollution

Amazonian natives say they will defend tribal lands from Hunt Oil with “their lives”

The Yangtze River may have lost another inhabitant: the Chinese paddlefish

Freshwater species worse off than land or marine

Power, profit, and pollution: dams and the uncertain future of Sarawak

Little hydroelectric dams become all the rage, but do they harm the environment?

After a hundred years, salmon swim by the Eiffel tower again

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