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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

Brazil’s environment minister Minc to step down

Mongabay.com 11 Aug 2009

Golden lion tamarins play key role in seed dispersal in Brazil’s Mata Atlantica

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2009

Amazon deforestation falls in June

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2009

Indigenous communities threatened by climate change

Ryan King 3 Aug 2009

Emissions from Amazon deforestation to rise as loggers move deeper into the rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2009

Alcoa mine to clear 25,000 acres of rainforest, suck 133,407 gallons of water per hour from the Amazon

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2009

Brazil returns massive shipment of waste to the UK

Ryan King 31 Jul 2009

REDD shouldn’t neglect biodiversity say scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jul 2009

Timberland announces policy to avoid using leather produced by Amazon destruction

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2009

Brazilian soy industry extends moratorium on Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2009

Nike implements policy to avoid leather produced via Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2009

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