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Héctor Choc Cuz, right, poses with his brother. Choc Cuz, 18, was beaten to death on the edge of El Estor and died on March 31, 2018. Image courtesy of Angélica Choc.

Nephew of Maya land and rights activist beaten to death in Guatemala

Heather Gies 27 Apr 2018
DO NOT USE THIS IMAGE. IT PUTS THE ACTIVIST IN DANGER

Study puts a figure to hidden cost of community-company conflict in palm oil industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2018

Pepsi cuts off Indonesian palm oil supplier over labor, sustainability concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Mar 2018

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Maximo Anderson, Aaron Vincent Elkaim 26 Feb 2018

Brazilian Supreme Court ruling protects Quilombola land rights for now

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 13 Feb 2018

Venezuela: can a failing state protect its environment and its people?

Glenn Scherer 1 Feb 2018

Maduro seeks sell off of Venezuela’s natural resources to escape debt – analysis

Bram Ebus 25 Jan 2018

Indonesia to strengthen environmental impact assessments through process review

Basten Gokkon 24 Jan 2018

Pope’s message to Amazonia inspires hope, but will it bring action?

Justin Catanoso 22 Jan 2018

Pope set to visit site of deforestation, indigenous struggle in Peru

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2018

Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

Zoe Sullivan 18 Jan 2018

Venezuela’s Mining Arc boom sweeps up Indigenous people and cultures

Bram Ebus 15 Jan 2018

Brazil 2018: Amazon under attack, resistance grows, courts to act, elections

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jan 2018

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Dec 2017

Colombian community leader allegedly murdered for standing up to palm oil

Taran Volckhausen 15 Dec 2017

Latin America-Europe trade pact to include historic indigenous rights clause

Lucy EJ Woods 12 Dec 2017

Militarization and mining a dangerous mix in Venezuelan Amazon

Bram Ebus 7 Dec 2017

Ferrogrão grain railway threatens Amazon indigenous groups, forest

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 4 Dec 2017

Pyrrhic victory for Keystone XL as Nebraska nixes preferred pipeline route

Saul Elbein 21 Nov 2017

Alliance of the Bear: Native groups stymie Trump, tar sands pipelines

Saul Elbein 16 Nov 2017

Indigenous lands at risk, as Amazon sellout by Brazil’s Temer continues (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 6 Nov 2017

Temer offers amnesty, erasing up to $2.1 billion in environmental crime fines

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 Oct 2017

Indonesia’s big development push in Papua: Q&A with program overseer Judith J. Dipodiputro

Basten Gokkon 27 Oct 2017

Munduruku standoff against Amazon dam builders potentially explosive

Sue Branford with Fernanda Moreira and Maurício Torres 17 Oct 2017

Amazon community on Tapajós River invaded by wildcat miners

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres, with additional reporting by Ailen Vega 2 Oct 2017

Brazil: a world champion in political and environmental devastation (commentary)

Giem Guimaraes 29 Sep 2017

Temer walks back plan to open Denmark-sized area of Amazon to mining

Jenny Gonzales 27 Sep 2017

Amazon dam operator defies order to shut down, police action looms

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2017

Belo Monte dam installation license suspended, housing inadequacy cited

Zoe Sullivan 19 Sep 2017

Transformance: Finding common ground in the Amazon (commentary)

Gus Greenstein 12 Sep 2017

Uncontacted Amazon indigenous groups reportedly attacked by outsiders

Barbara Fraser 11 Sep 2017

Why we can’t lose hope: Dr. David Suzuki speaks out

Glenn Scherer 11 Sep 2017

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