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The Amazon’s oil boom: concessions cover a Chile-sized bloc of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2015

Mercury fish: gold mining puts downstream communities at risk in Peru

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2015

Scientists rediscover endangered Andean toad in Ecuador

Joanna Parkman 30 Jan 2015

When is a forest a forest? How definitions affect monitoring

Julian Moll-rocek 29 Jan 2015

Community tourism fills niche around Tambopata National Reserve

Barbara Fraser 29 Jan 2015

Financial pledges for REDD+ slow to be disbursed, finds report

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2015

Accounting for natural capital on financial exchanges

Sarah Friedman 26 Jan 2015

Video: camera trap catches jaguar hunting peccaries

Jeremy Hance 26 Jan 2015

Brazil’s soy moratorium dramatically reduced Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2015

Indigenous territories play dual role as homelands and protected areas

Barbara Fraser 22 Jan 2015

Environmental wisdom: keeping indigenous stories alive

Barbara Fraser 21 Jan 2015

A model forest? Regional park balances local needs and conservation

Barbara Fraser 21 Jan 2015

Company chops down rainforest to produce ‘sustainable’ chocolate

John Cannon 20 Jan 2015

Amazon tribe attacks oilfield in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2015

No experience necessary: how studying tamarins led to an innovative research organization in the Amazon

Andrew Mann 15 Jan 2015

Amazon gold rush destroying huge swaths of rainforest

John Cannon 14 Jan 2015

Road building spree hurts Amazon birds

Brittany Stewart 14 Jan 2015

Deforestation climbing – along with fears – in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jan 2015

Time for a checkup: researchers examine the health of lowland tapirs

Heather D'angelo 7 Jan 2015

Peru’s first environment minister dies at 74

Julian Moll-rocek 7 Jan 2015

Rainforests: 10 things to watch in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2015

2014: the year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2014

Rat eradication needed to save seabird colony

Michael Buelna 30 Dec 2014

Meet Biofaces: the Facebook for wildlife enthusiasts

Jeremy Hance 30 Dec 2014

Ecuador sends aid money back to Germany over planned rainforest visit

Jeremy Hance 23 Dec 2014

How a frog with a strange name is helping improve conservation in Brazil

Jose Hong 23 Dec 2014

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2014

Genetics study sheds light on Chile’s most endangered bird

Joanna Parkman 22 Dec 2014

Edited Reality: What I Learned from Filming Eaten Alive

Paul Rosolie 22 Dec 2014

Impacts of deforestation on Amazonian river ecosystems could be far-reaching

Mike Gaworecki 18 Dec 2014

Plant wars: some tree species compete better against grasses for reforestation

Brittany Stewart 18 Dec 2014

Tropical deforestation could disrupt rainfall globally

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2014

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