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Brazil could meet all its food demand by 2040 without cutting down another tree

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2014

Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investment

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2014

Phone-based logging alert system eyes expanding to the Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2014

Rare bird paradise protected in war-torn Colombian mountain range (photos)

Jeremy Hance 22 Jul 2014

Roads through the rainforest: an overview of South America’s ‘arc of deforestation’

Dr Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2014

Coastal wildlife paradise declared biosphere reserve in Argentina (PHOTOS)

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2014

Only 15 percent of world’s biodiversity hotspots left intact

Jeremy Hance 14 Jul 2014

Downturn in shade-grown coffee putting forests, wildlife, people at risk

Nika Levikov 11 Jul 2014

Good intentions, collateral damage: forest conservation may be hurting grasslands

Anna Ikarashi 10 Jul 2014

A garden or a wilderness? One-fifth of the Amazon may have been savannah before the arrival of Europeans

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

Pope Francis: ‘this is our sin: we exploit the earth’

Jeremy Hance 8 Jul 2014

Booming populations, rising economies, threatened biodiversity: the tropics will never be the same

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2014

A fine line: new program predicts when human impact becomes too much

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jul 2014

On babies and motherhood: how giant armadillos are surprising scientists (photos)

Jeremy Hance 1 Jul 2014

New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business

Janaki Lenin 30 Jun 2014

Is REDD+ bad for wildlife? New study says lowland forest protection bias unfair, urges change

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Jun 2014

Brazil should convert pasture, not cerrado for biofuel crops

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2014

Size matters: small animals abundant in fragmented forests, large animals not

Jose Hong 25 Jun 2014

‘Hope springs eternal’: the anniversary of the death of Lonesome George

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Jun 2014

Scientists: Neotropical otter should not be considered threatened

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2014

Using Google Earth to protect uncontacted tribes in the Amazon rainforest

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jun 2014

Fly and wasp biodiversity in Peru linked to strange defense strategy

Nicholas Barrett 18 Jun 2014

Feather forensics: scientist uses genes to track macaws, aid bird conservation

Elizabeth Devitt 17 Jun 2014

Camera trap captures first ever video of rarely-seen bird in the Amazon…and much more

Jeremy Hance 17 Jun 2014

After Greenpeace complaint, UK timber giant removes controversial Amazon wood from shelves

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2014

Protecting rainforests could sequester equivalent of a third of global emissions annually

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jun 2014

Oil drilling causes widespread contamination in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jun 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Learning from innovations to make REDD+ work

Dr Liz Kimbrough 12 Jun 2014

Chile drops hugely controversial mega-dam project in wild Patagonia

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2014

Mountain forests store 40 percent more carbon than expected

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2014

Tropical nations make progress in slowing deforestation

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2014

In cutting deforestation, Brazil leads world in reducing emissions

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2014

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