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Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million

Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazilian court, appeal likely but difficult

Guyana rainforests secure trust fund

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Still time to save most species in the Brazilian Amazon

Experts dispute recent study that claims little impact by pre-Columbian tribes in Amazon

Indigenous tribes occupy Belo Monte dam for over 10 days

Over 700 people killed defending forest and land rights in past ten years

Can loggers be conservationists?

Innovative program seeks to safeguard Peruvian Amazon from impacts of Inter-Oceanic Highway

World’s most toxic frog gets new reserve

Majority of protected tropical forests “empty” due to hunting

New rainforest and indigenous reserve established in Peru

Guyanese tribe maps Connecticut-sized rainforest for land rights

As Amazon deforestation falls, food production rises

Ecuador makes $116 million to not drill for oil in Amazon

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2011

Following violent crackdown against protestors, Bolivia puts Amazon road project on ice

Repeated burning undercuts Amazon rainforest recovery

New map reveals the most biodiverse place on Earth, but already threatened by oil

Lessons from the world’s longest study of rainforest fragments

Germany backs out of Yasuni deal

Brazil protected areas suffer serious deficiencies, says study

Killing in the name of deforestation: Amazon activist and wife assassinated

Giant fish help grow the Amazon rainforest

Bill Clinton takes on Brazil’s megadams, James Cameron backs tribal groups

Indigenous leaders take fight over Amazon dams to Europe

Paradise & Paradox: a semester in Ecuador

Consumer goods industry announces goal of zero deforestation in Cancun

Oil, indigenous people, and Ecuador’s big idea

Rainforests thrived in warmer conditions in the past, yet study requires “caution”

Undergrads in the Amazon: American students witness beauty and crisis in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

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