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Frequent understory fires change rainforest community composition

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2013

Burned rainforest vulnerable to grass invasion

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Apr 2013

Brazil’s success in reducing deforestation will be hard to replicate

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2013

Featured video: Earth Day message from indigenous tribes in the Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 23 Apr 2013

Last 30 years were the warmest in the last 1,400 years

Jeremy Hance 21 Apr 2013

Brazil threatens $282m in fines for beef linked to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2013

Judge halts military-backed dam assessment in Brazil’s Amazon

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2013

“Offsetting” carbon emissions from travel, web site traffic

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Apr 2013

New insect discovered in Brazil, only third known in its bizarre family (photos)

Alexander Holmgren 15 Apr 2013

New species tree-dwelling porcupine discovered in critically threatened Brazilian habitat

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Apr 2013

Landowner who allegedly ordered Amazon murders acquitted

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

6 lessons for stopping deforestation on the frontier

Daniel Nepstad 9 Apr 2013

Featured video: stemming human-caused fires in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 9 Apr 2013

Indigenous group: Brazil using military to force Amazon dams

Jonathan Watts 8 Apr 2013

30% of Brazil’s emissions from deforestation are export-driven

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Apr 2013

Killings over land continues in the Amazon

David Hill 4 Apr 2013

Where the flamingos fly: Mumbai, apparently!

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 3 Apr 2013

Human-wildlife conflict on the rise in India

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 3 Apr 2013

Scientists describe new species of see-through fish from the Amazon

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2013

Where do the birds fly? – Migrant Watch, a ‘citizen science’ data collection organization tells you

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 2 Apr 2013

For Easter: a baby horned screamer chick (photo)

Mongabay.com 31 Mar 2013

China’s hunger for resources has big environmental impact in Latin America

Jonathan Watts 29 Mar 2013

Brazilian govt confirms rise in deforestation

Mongabay.com 28 Mar 2013

Conflict zones have higher deforestation rates in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Mar 2013

Brazilian supermarkets ban beef linked to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 27 Mar 2013

Relative of the ‘penis snake’ discovered in South America (photos)

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Mar 2013

After decades of turning a blind eye, Peru declares state of emergency due to oil contamination in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2013

Indigenous protester killed by masked assailants in Panama over UN-condemned dam

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 25 Mar 2013

Forging zoos into global conservation centers, an interview with Cristian Samper, head of WCS

Mark Szotek 25 Mar 2013

Roads could help protect the environment rather than destroy it, argues Nature paper

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Mar 2013

Scientists discover two new remarkably-colored lizards in the Peruvian Amazon (photos)

Jeremy Hance 21 Mar 2013

Disney buys $3.5M in REDD credits from rainforest conservation project in Peru

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2013

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