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Brazil’s actual forest-related CO2 emissions could blow by Paris pledge

Claire Asher 19 Apr 2018

Brazil’s high court curbs executive power to dismember protected areas

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 12 Apr 2018

New research examines spread of payments for ecosystem services around the globe

Mike Gaworecki 6 Apr 2018

NGOs denounce Tapajós basin intimidation, violence, Brazil inaction

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 4 Apr 2018

Cerrado Manifesto could curb deforestation, but needs support: experts

Anna Sophie Gross 29 Mar 2018

Do environmental advocacy campaigns drive successful forest conservation?

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2018

Cerrado: U.S. investment spurs land theft, deforestation in Brazil, say experts

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 28 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 26 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 22 Mar 2018

Over $720 million in profit from tourism in Peru’s protected natural areas

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 22 Mar 2018

Brazilian lawmakers funded by donors guilty of environmental crimes: report

Anna Sophie Gross 21 Mar 2018

Exploring humanity’s deep connection to water, plus the sounds of the Sandhill crane migration

Mike Gaworecki 20 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Agribusiness may be killing Brazil’s ‘birthplace of waters’

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 19 Mar 2018

Ecuador: Sarayaku leader Patricia Gualinga defends territory despite threats

Isabel Riofrio 19 Mar 2018

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

Alicia Prager, 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, 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, Mauricio 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, 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, 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, Mauricio 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

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