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Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle over land in an Amazonian metropolis

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2012

With deforestation falling, energy sector to become Brazil’s biggest CO2 source

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2012

REDD+ negotiations in Doha at impasse, potentially delaying decisions on safeguards another year

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2012

Brazilian bank approves $10.8 billion loan for controversial Amazon rainforest dam

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2012

Long and thin with a big head: new snake adds diversity to a bizarre group (photo)

Jeremy Hance 28 Nov 2012

Brazil’s deforestation at record low from 2011-2012

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2012

Photos: Chinese leopard wins camera trap contest

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2012

Endangered muriqui monkeys in Brazil full of surprises

Elizabeth Devitt 26 Nov 2012

Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2012

Oil drilling approved for national park in Belize

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 20 Nov 2012

Colombia gets world’s first VCS validated and verified REDD project on collective lands

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2012

Amazon deforestation tracking higher in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2012

Featured video: on-the-ground look at Brazil’s fight against deforestation

Jeremy Hance 15 Nov 2012

New species of bioluminescent cockroach possibly already extinct by volcanic eruption

Michael Rudolph 14 Nov 2012

Threatened Galapagos coral may predict the future of reefs worldwide

Julian Smith 7 Nov 2012

Happy Halloween: nine new species of tree-climbing tarantula discovered

Jeremy Hance 31 Oct 2012

After seven year search, scientists film cryptic predator in Minas Gerais

Jeremy Hance 25 Oct 2012

El Salvador mulls total ban on mining

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 22 Oct 2012

Most controversial aspects of Brazil’s new Forest Code vetoed as legislation signed into law

Mongabay.com 19 Oct 2012

Norway to double carbon tax on oil industry for climate change programs

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2012

The world’s 25 most endangered primates: nearly a quarter in Madagascar

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2012

UNESCO disturbed by gas plans for Peru’s Manu National Park

David Hill 15 Oct 2012

Brazil forms special environmental security force to combat spike in deforestation

Mongabay.com 11 Oct 2012

Indigenous groups re-occupy Belo Monte dam in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2012

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil hits 10 year mark

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2012

Photos: new mammal menagerie uncovered in remote Peruvian cloud forest

Jeremy Hance 3 Oct 2012

Tarantula laying eggs

jeremy-hance 1 Oct 2012

Illegal logging worth $30-100B annually

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2012

Penguins face a slippery future

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2012

Greenpeace targets forest carbon offsets in California’s cap-and-trade

Mongabay.com 25 Sep 2012

Amazon deforestation jumps in August

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2012

New forest map shows 6% of Amazon deforested between 2000 and 2010

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2012

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