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Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2009

Destruction of old-growth forests looms over climate talks

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Dec 2009

Copenhagen and Brazilian Megalomania

Nikolas Kozloff 7 Dec 2009

Brazil could halt Amazon deforestation within a decade

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Dec 2009

Brazil to push for 10% limit on REDD carbon offsets

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Dec 2009

Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2009

No-shows among South American leaders at Amazon summit

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2009

Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2009

Blackout in Brazil: Hydropower and Our Climate Conundrum

Senorchicheronikolas Kozloff 19 Nov 2009

Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2009

Brazil pledges to restrain emissions growth

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2009

Brazil releases official Amazon deforestation figures for 2009

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2009

Will Brazil’s blackout drive a new push for more rainforest dams?

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2009

Google partners with Amazon tribe

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2009

Brazil to support REDD in Copenhagen

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2009

Perfect shot of the rare Iberian wolf wins nature photo contest

Jeremy Hance 22 Oct 2009

New species of glowing mushrooms named after Mozart’s Requiem

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2009

Brazilian beef giants agree to moratorium on Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2009

Roads are enablers of rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2009

Working to save the ‘living dead’ in the Atlantic Forest, an interview with Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

Jeremy Hance 23 Sep 2009

Prince Charles making progress in effort to save rainforests, says leading British environmentalist

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Sep 2009

Dangers for journalists who expose environmental issues

Reporters Without Borders 19 Sep 2009

Brazil may ban sugarcane plantations from the Amazon, Pantanal

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2009

Emissions from cerrado destruction in Brazil equal to emissions from Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2009

Social causes of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2009

Brazil to step up efforts to save the cerrado grassland

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2009

Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2009

Activists target Brazil’s largest driver of deforestation: cattle ranching

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2009
U.S.-based Cargill corporation burns large areas of Amazon rainforest in norther Pará state to prepare for soya plantations in 2003. Image by Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace

20% of land deforested in the Brazilian Amazon is regrowing forest

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Sep 2009

Amazon deforestation to fall 30% in 2009

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2009

Brazil’s ‘Obama’ weighs presidential bid

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2009

Brazilian beef giant announces moratorium on rainforest beef

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2009

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