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Cerrado: can the empire of soy coexist with savannah conservation?

Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance 15 Mar 2018
The countries that approved the Agreement of Principle 10 must now ratify the treaty in their respective nations. Photo: DAR.

Two dozen Latin American countries sign agreement to protect environmental defenders

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Mar 2018

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Claire Salisbury 13 Mar 2018

Cerrado: appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes

Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance 12 Mar 2018

How deforestation risks for investors can become opportunities for conservation (commentary)

Gabriel Thoumi, Peter Graham 9 Mar 2018

Analysis: the Brazilian Supreme Court’s New Forest Code ruling

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 7 Mar 2018
Photo courtesy of Semana Sostenible.

In Colombia, a national park’s expansion announced as deforestation progresses

Esteban Montaño/Semana Sostenible 6 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

Brazil high court Forest Code ruling largely bad for environment, Amazon: NGOs

Sue Branford 1 Mar 2018

‘S.O.S.’ carved out of former plantation shines a light on palm oil-driven deforestation

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018

Peru: Law prioritizes highway construction that could threaten indigenous communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 27 Feb 2018

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Maximo Anderson and Aaron Vincent Elkaim 26 Feb 2018

Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

Exploring the minds and inner lives of animals

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2018

Brazilian Supreme Court ruling protects Quilombola land rights for now

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 13 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018

Venezuela: can a failing state protect its environment and its people?

Glenn Scherer 1 Feb 2018

Maduro seeks sell off of Venezuela’s natural resources to escape debt – analysis

Bram Ebus 25 Jan 2018

Pope’s message to Amazonia inspires hope, but will it bring action?

Justin Catanoso 22 Jan 2018

Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

Zoe Sullivan 18 Jan 2018

Venezuela’s Mining Arc boom sweeps up Indigenous people and cultures

Bram Ebus 15 Jan 2018

Natural World Heritage Sites in trouble, especially in the Tropics

Claire Asher 11 Jan 2018

Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses

Claire Salisbury 10 Jan 2018

Brazil 2018: Amazon under attack, resistance grows, courts to act, elections

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jan 2018

Meet Indonesia’s new honeyeater species from Rote Island

Basten Gokkon 5 Jan 2018

Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2018

In early push into Papua, palm oil firms set stage for massive forest plunder

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jan 2018

U.S. court ruling complicates Trump’s elephant and lion policy

Jeremy Hance 2 Jan 2018

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Dec 2017

Selective logging reduces biodiversity, disrupts Amazon ecosystems: study

Claire Asher 22 Dec 2017

Palm oil’s ecological footprint extends to distant forests, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Dec 2017

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