Amazon rainforest
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Lily Cole: The Yawanawá people of the Amazon never got to open the toybox of consumer capitalism. Yet they endure floods, displacement and dispossession
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Side effects of illegal mining in the Amazon caused a resurgence of malaria. Creating job opportunities could be a solution, writes Camila Nobrega
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David Hill: Indigenous peoples say oil operations by Canadian firm in Peru pose danger to Brazil
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Levels fell to second-lowest level in quarter century, Brazil’s environment minister said, in wake of adoption of controversial bill revising the Forest Code
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Alex Soros: Developed world’s greed for hardwood, palm oil, natural gas and beef is killing people on environmental frontiers
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Government accused of neglecting people defending their land and forests against mining and illegal logging
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Carbon mapping by the Carnegie Institute for Science reveals nearly seven billion tonnes of carbon stored in Peru’s rainforests, in a technique that could help preserve such stores to reduce carbon emissions
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Report says logging and burning of Amazon might be connected to worsening droughts – such as the one plaguing São Paulo
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While the largest landowners have cut their contribution to deforestation by two-thirds, that of smallholders has increased
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Data indicates 190% rise in land clearance in August and September compared with same period last year
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Hi-tech undercover operation used GPS tracking on timber trucks for the first time, as well as satellite and aerial images to reveal extent of illegal logging in Brazilian Amazon
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State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum
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George Monbiot: Our consumption is trashing a natural world infinitely more fascinating and intricate than the stuff we produce
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New York declaration on forests could cut carbon emissions equivalent of taking all the world’s cars off the road
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Climate News Network: Deforestation and climate change responsible for forests not producing vapour clouds that bring rain to Brazil, scientists say
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325-metre tower will gather data on heat, water, cloud formation, carbon absorption and weather patterns, newspaper reports
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Conservationist Robin Moore’s photographs from his journey around the world to find lost species
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Forest Trends warns that demand for palm oil, beef, soy and wood has fuelled rapid deforestation, especially in Indonesia
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Lunae Parracho documents Ka’por Indians taking charge of their territory, patrolling and expelling loggers
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Group of 23 men, women and children cross border from their territory in Peru and are being monitored by health ministry
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Indigenous people crossed from Peru into Brazil looking for help to combat illegal loggers and drug traffickers, researchers say
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Are UK consumers still buying protected rainforest timbers? With your help, Karl Mathiesen investigates how much contraband timber still finds its way into the country
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Indigenous people call off action following meeting with representatives over their ‘failure’ to aid to contaminated communities
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An environmental campaigner is killed every week in Brazil. Jonathan Watts and Karina Vieira travel to Lábrea in the heart of the Amazon to meet the people risking their lives
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BBC documentary featuring ex-England footballer in Brazil included encounters with a frog and a snake, plus hair concerns. By John Plunkett
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Sam Wollaston: Illegal loggers, shifty Tito and a coca crop – Charlie's 100 acres of rainforest is full of surprises
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Companies could start extracting oil underneath key biodiversity reserve on Earth by 2016
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Pep Canadell and Ben Poulter for The Conversation: New research shows that semi-arid regions, such as Australia, will play growing role in Earth's carbon cycle
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Greenpeace investigation uncovers evidence that illegally logged timber is being sold on to buyers in the UK, US, Europe and China
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Ambitious politician Kátia Abreu leads agricultural lobby in loosening controls on Amazon deforestation
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The bufeo (river dolphin) is a creature of myth, but you're pretty much guaranteed a sighting on a river cruise in Bolivia's north-eastern wetlands
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Andrew Simms: The murder and intimidation of ordinary people defending the environment and land cannot be called 'development'
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Civil society groups say enough signatures have been gathered to force a referendum but authorities are interfering
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Around 500 Achuar protesters are demanding the clean-up of decades of contamination from spilled crude oil
Brazil should take lead on climate, not just broker talks