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16/5/2013
As Peru's legislature debates the merits of building the Purús
highway through the Amazon
rainforest, a new report by Global Witness alleges that the project has been aggressively pushed by those with a financial stake in opening up the remote ...
4/4/2013
On Wednesday, in the Brazilian state of Pará, the trial begins of three men accused of murdering José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria do Espirito Santo, who had campaigned against loggers and ranchers for years. Their assassinations ...
9/2/2013
Like in a desolate Edward Hopper landscape, the orangutan was clinging to the one last tree that stood next to the river in Kutai National Park in eastern Kalimantan. The joy of seeing this magnificent primate was spoiled by his destroyed habitat ...
4/12/2012
The city of Parauapebas, Brazil is booming: built over the remains of the Amazonian
rainforest, the metropolis has grown 75-fold in less than 25 years, from 2,000 people upwards of 150,000. But little time for urban planning and both a spatial ...
25/11/2012
The Amazon has been viewed for ages as a vast quilt of rain forest interspersed by remote river outposts. But the surging population growth of cities in the jungle is turning that rural vision on its head and alarming scientists, as an array of ...
3/11/2012
In 2001, Scott Bernstein, at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in inner-city Chicago, produced a set of maps that are still changing the way we think about our country. In these maps, remarkably, the red and the green switched places. This ...
7/9/2012
Though Brazil's Amazon has been the focus of environmental groups for decades, the deforestation rate there has fallen dramatically in recent years as clear-cutting of Amazonian jungle in eight other countries has started to rise.
As a ...
4/8/2012
Ivo Lubrinna has been wildcatting for gold in the jungle here for more than 30 years. It's a notoriously messy business, as crews strip away topsoil in the forest and along riverbanks and use mercury and other pollutants to draw precious metal ...
19/6/2012
Brazil's biggest infrastructure project -- the $11 billion Belo Monte dam -- is also its most controversial, and one showcased at the international summit on June 20-22 in Rio de Janeiro held 20 years after the Earth Summit.
Striking a ...
15/6/2012
In an symbolic protest of the giant Belo Monte Dam, Friday morning some 300 locals dug a channel in an earthen dam that blocks a portion of the Xingu River and serves as the first step for the controversial hydroelectric project, reports Amazon ...
31/5/2012
Paving a
highway across South America is providing lessons on the impact of road construction elsewhere.
That's what a University of Florida researcher and his international colleagues have determined from analyzing communities along the ...
10/3/2012
When the United Nations process on climate change unveiled the program known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) three years ago, it was hailed by its architects as “an effort to create a financial value for the ...
9/3/2012
Indigenous villages dot the Amazon
rainforest along the border between Brazil and Peru, and everyone agrees that the people who live in them have taken better care of their lands than have the Portuguese and Spaniards who came later. That ...
1/2/2012
Sitting on the porch of his ramshackle wooden hut, shaded from the Amazonian sun by the thick
rainforest canopy, Brazil nut collector Eleuterio Martin admits he has never heard of global warming.
Yet Martin, 73, is now set to play his ...
19/1/2012
We live in an era of unprecedented road and
highway expansion -- an era in which many of the world’s last tropical wildernesses, from the Amazon to Borneo to the Congo Basin, have been penetrated by roads. This surge in road building is being ...
2/12/2011
Deforestation and forest degradation are down moderately from August through October 2011 relative to the same period a year ago, reports a satellite-based assessment released today by Imazon, a Brazilian group.
Imazon's near-real time ...
28/10/2011
Hundreds of campaigners occupied the construction site of the Belo Monte dam project in the Brazilian Amazon.The protesters want work on the multi-billion dollar dam stopped, arguing that it will displace thousands of indigenous people ...
27/10/2011
Hundreds of people are participating in a protest against the controversial Belo Monte dam in Altamira, Brazil, reports Amazon Watch.
Indigenous leaders, fishermen, and others dependent on the Xingu River have gathered to occupy the ...
21/10/2011
Bolivia's President Evo Morales has scrapped plans for a road project in the Amazon that had triggered protests by indigenous people.
Mr Morales said the road would no longer go through a
rainforest reserve.
He made the ...
18/10/2011
At Najjembe roadside market, in the heart of Uganda's
rainforest, Sanyu Nakato offers the bright yellow bananas in her basket to hungry passengers on the long-distance coach to neighbouring Kenya, who snap up her wares.
"I sell up to 20 ...
25/9/2011
Hundreds of indigenous demonstrators in Bolivia's Amazon basin region forced the country's foreign minister to join their protest march, using him to break through a police blockade.
Protesters, who are not from Bolivia's two main groups ...
6/9/2011
A richly biodiverse
rainforest the size of 3,000 soccer fields in central Bolivia will be the first victim of the road planned to run through the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), say environmental ...
5/9/2011
The price of gold is rising for the tenth consecutive year. As a result, more and more investors, financial market operators and central banks are turning to gold as a safe haven in the face of global economic instability. This has troubling ...
25/8/2011
High rates of deforestation are likely to continue in Pará and Mato Grosso, while federal and especially state conservation units fail to protect Brazil's
rainforest.
A new report from Imazon, a Brazilian NGO that tracks deforestation, ...
29/7/2011
Many migrants from southern Brazil who clear forests in Brazil’s state of Amazonas are making their living as small-scale land speculators and not as farmers or as cattle ranchers, new research has found.
This on-the-ground reality and ...