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Canada, Russia, Brazil lead world in old-growth forest loss

Morgan Erickson-Davis 5 Sep 2014

Scientists uncover five new species of ‘toupee’ monkeys in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 2 Sep 2014

Authorities stop ‘greatest destroyers of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Aug 2014

Saving the Atlantic Forest would cost less than ‘Titanic’

Jeremy Hance 28 Aug 2014

Invasion of the lionfish: new research finds the situation may be worse than we thought

Jose Hong 27 Aug 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Norway puts $1.6B into rainforest conservation

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2014

China and Europe’s outsourcing of soy production impacts the Amazon

Mongabay.com 14 Aug 2014

95% of Amazon deforestation happens near roads or major rivers

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2014

2 prize-winning journalists will report on Amazon, 2 new prizes announced

Mongabay.org 1 Aug 2014

Brazil releases video showing first contact with rainforest tribe

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2014

True stewards: new report says local communities key to saving forests, curbing global warming

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Jul 2014

Targeted enforcement saved a Massachusetts-worth of Amazon rainforest in 3 years

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2014

Brazil could meet all its food demand by 2040 without cutting down another tree

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2014

Phone-based logging alert system eyes expanding to the Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2014

Roads through the rainforest: an overview of South America’s ‘arc of deforestation’

Dr Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2014

Only 15 percent of world’s biodiversity hotspots left intact

Jeremy Hance 14 Jul 2014

Good intentions, collateral damage: forest conservation may be hurting grasslands

Anna Ikarashi 10 Jul 2014

A garden or a wilderness? One-fifth of the Amazon may have been savannah before the arrival of Europeans

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

A fine line: new program predicts when human impact becomes too much

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jul 2014

On babies and motherhood: how giant armadillos are surprising scientists (photos)

Jeremy Hance 1 Jul 2014

New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business

Janaki Lenin 30 Jun 2014

Brazil should convert pasture, not cerrado for biofuel crops

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2014

Using Google Earth to protect uncontacted tribes in the Amazon rainforest

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jun 2014

Feather forensics: scientist uses genes to track macaws, aid bird conservation

Elizabeth Devitt 17 Jun 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Learning from innovations to make REDD+ work

Dr Liz Kimbrough 12 Jun 2014

Tropical nations make progress in slowing deforestation

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2014

In cutting deforestation, Brazil leads world in reducing emissions

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2014

Intact Amazon forests show possible signs of global warming impact

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2014

Logging, fires take a hidden toll on Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2014

Happy Amazon: $215 million raised for world’s largest protected area network

Jeremy Hance 21 May 2014

Greenpeace: Timber laundering rampant in the Brazilian Amazon

Mongabay.com 18 May 2014

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