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Report from the Amazon #2: Newly created conservation unit could push long-time residents from their lands

Sue Branford 11 Mar 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Mato Grosso leading the fight against climate change and deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 10 Mar 2016

Indigenous rights win big against mining in Suriname

Ruxandra Guidi 10 Mar 2016

Giant development bank’s social and environmental safeguards called into question by critics

Sue Branford 9 Mar 2016

An indigenous community takes hostages in an effort to draw attention to oil spill in Peru’s Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 8 Mar 2016

Bringing field surveys into the modern, mobile world

Katie Taylor 4 Mar 2016

A month since the oil spill, Wampis indigenous peoples criticize PetroPeru’s negligence

Ruxandra Guidi 4 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #1: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford 4 Mar 2016

Want to keep tabs on that new logging road in Peru? Well, now you can

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Mar 2016

Award-winning Colombian film, “The Embrace of the Serpent”, is not sitting well with a local indigenous community

Ruxandra Guidi 1 Mar 2016

The African palm oil frontier expands deeper into the Peruvian Amazon, impacting indigenous communities’ territories

Barbara Fraser 1 Mar 2016

A forest full of beetles: an interview with bug researcher Caroline Chaboo

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Mar 2016

Market-based conservation programs slow deforestation in Chile, study finds

Peter Mellgard 29 Feb 2016

Can privatization save parks?

Josh Davis 26 Feb 2016

Indigenous communities are forced to clean up a 3,000-barrel oil spill in Peru’s Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 26 Feb 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

The dangers of China’s ‘thumb monkey’ trend

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Feb 2016

CEO and execs charged with homicide in Samarco dam collapse in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 25 Feb 2016

Oil exploration in Bolivia’s Amazon region goes on overdrive

Ruxandra Guidi 25 Feb 2016

Soil carbon could be key to protecting global biodiversity and climate at same time

Mike Gaworecki 24 Feb 2016

Peace agreements often ignore natural resources, report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Feb 2016

Eight newly discovered species of whip spiders could soon become extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Feb 2016

Mystery surrounds death of 44 howler monkeys in Ecuador wildlife reserve

Ruxandra Guidi 22 Feb 2016

Seven million hectares of forests have been lost in Argentina over the past 20 years

Ruxandra Guidi 19 Feb 2016

To stop the Zika virus from spreading in Brazil, specialists call for an ‘environmental revolution’

Carolina Torres 18 Feb 2016

Zika virus and climate change

Fred Bercovitch 17 Feb 2016

Brazil’s Senate could soon be voting against the country’s environmental safeguards

Jenny Gonzales 16 Feb 2016

Bolivia’s second largest lake disappears, due to desertification and contamination

Aldo Orellana López 15 Feb 2016

77 inspiring rainforest pictures

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Feb 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016

Secondary forests offer big opportunity to fight global warming

Mike Gaworecki 12 Feb 2016

Peruvian Amazon will get wetter and experience more severe floods, threatening wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 11 Feb 2016

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