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China’s investment in Latin America taking toll on the environment, setting the stage for conflict

Shreya Dasgupta 18 May 2015

What’s the current deforestation rate in the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 May 2015

Zero deforestation commitments bearing fruit in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 May 2015

Brazilian firm’s mega-dam plans in Peru spark major social conflict

David Hill 11 May 2015

Peru considers fate of Amazon wildlife paradise

Mongabay.com 8 May 2015

Facing Future Storms: Poor Honduran Communities Unite to Protect Watersheds and Nature

David Barton Bray 5 May 2015

Giant Amazonian catfish threatened by dams

Sandhya Sekar 1 May 2015

Featured video: the Uncharted Amazon trailer

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2015

Peru’s mega-dam projects threaten Amazon River source and ecosystem collapse

David Hill 28 Apr 2015

‘Deforestation fronts’ revealed

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2015

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon continues to accelerate

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2015

Fracas over Costa Rican shark-fin exports leads American Airlines to stop shipping fins

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 24 Apr 2015

Can shade-grown cocoa help conserve sloths?

Darcy Widmayer 22 Apr 2015

Killings of environmental activists jumped by 20 percent last year

Jeremy Hance 20 Apr 2015

Featured video: ‘A river in dispute’ documentary explores how a planned dam in the Amazon is affecting traditional communities

Agência Pública 15 Apr 2015

Platform provides near-real time analysis of deforestation in non-Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Apr 2015

‘Lazy’ sea lion sons rely on mothers’ milk while diligent daughters learn to hunt

Nicholas Weiler 3 Apr 2015

Here comes progress: what will planned megaprojects mean for an Amazon city?

Bruno Fonseca 31 Mar 2015

Nobody listened to them: fishing communities to be displaced by dams want a say in their future

Ana Aranha And jessica Mota 30 Mar 2015

9 months after Amazonian oil pipeline spill, effects and fears linger

Barbara Fraser 30 Mar 2015

Photos: expedition to Amazon’s white sands may have found new primate

Jeremy Hance 24 Mar 2015

Road rage: scientists denounce $60 trillion infrastructure expansion

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 14 Mar 2015

Photo essay: filming in the remote Amazon

Tristan Thompson 9 Mar 2015

How the Sahara keeps the Amazon rainforest going

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2015

Brazil arrests ‘Amazon’s biggest destroyer’

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

Brazilian indigenous populations grow quickly after first contact devastation

Caitlin E. Williamson 18 Feb 2015

Mining activist released after being charged with terrorism, rebellion in Ecuador

Jeremy Hance 11 Feb 2015

The Amazon’s oil boom: concessions cover a Chile-sized bloc of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2015

Mercury fish: gold mining puts downstream communities at risk in Peru

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2015

Video: camera trap catches jaguar hunting peccaries

Jeremy Hance 26 Jan 2015

Brazil’s soy moratorium dramatically reduced Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2015

Road building spree hurts Amazon birds

Brittany Stewart 14 Jan 2015

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