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Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford 17 Oct 2016

Airbus to marshal its satellites against deforestation

Philip Jacobson 12 Oct 2016

Brazil pledges to cut carbon, but government policies say otherwise

Jenny Gonzales 6 Oct 2016

Going green with the aviation industry (commentary)

Devan Wardwell, Jeffrey Chatellier 29 Sep 2016

Indonesia seeks foreign funds to aid peat restoration drive

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Sep 2016

Amazon radio network unites regional opposition to Tapajós basin dams

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2016

Scientists say Amazon biodiversity could help fuel Fourth Industrial Revolution

Mike Gaworecki 20 Sep 2016

Pulp and paper supplier denies draining peat on island near Singapore

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Sep 2016

Operation license for Amazon’s Belo Monte mega-dam suspended

Zoe Sullivan 13 Sep 2016

Belo Monte dam compensation inadequate, say traditional fisherfolk

Zoe Sullivan 9 Sep 2016

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Sue Branford 26 Aug 2016

Nixed Bolivian highway offers environmental lessons to big Brazil bank

Ana Rosa de Lima, Alexandra Ellerbeck 24 Aug 2016

Dams inevitably result in species decline, losses on reservoir islands

Claire Salisbury 23 Aug 2016

Promised US$1 billion in Belo Monte dam compensation largely unpaid?

Carolina Torres 12 Aug 2016

Indonesia mulls revision of orangutan conservation plan

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 11 Aug 2016

Photos: Indonesia’s far-flung indigenous seek audience in Jakarta

Cory Rogers 9 Aug 2016

IPOP’s demise undercuts palm oil industry progress [commentary]

Dave McLaughlin 8 Aug 2016
Google Earth image showing the site for the São Luiz do Tapajós dam.

Environmental licence for São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam denied

Sue Branford 4 Aug 2016

Tapajós dams may bring fish kills, species loss, mercury contamination

Tatiana Farah, from Repórter Brasil 2 Aug 2016

Up the Kapuas River, a Borneo tribe lives off the land

Vanessa Nirode 29 Jul 2016
Deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

New initiative to further creation of a single map in Indonesia’s Riau

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2016

Indonesia declares national park in top palm oil-producing province

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2016

Study: Drought impedes tree growth, shuts down Amazon carbon sink

Claire Asher 21 Jul 2016

Cargill suspends new purchase agreements with Malaysian palm oil giant IOI

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2016
Borneo orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia’s energy, agriculture targets could undermine its climate goals: report

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2016

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Sue Branford 13 Jul 2016

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Claire Salisbury 12 Jul 2016

Small time land speculators profit in advance of Amazon dams

Tatiana Farah, from Repórter Brasil 5 Jul 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are South Sumatrans doing to prevent another haze crisis?

Taufik Wijaya 29 Jun 2016

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

Claire Salisbury 21 Jun 2016

Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land

Sue Branford 6 Jun 2016

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Claire Salisbury 6 Jun 2016

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