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INDIGENOUS PERUVIANS WIN AMAZON POLLUTION PAYOUT FROM US OIL GIANT
Rather than Los Angeles, the plaintiffs successfully appealed to overturn this decision, and the US supreme court refused to hear the company's arguments in 2013... READ MORE›
NO, THE WORLD'S OLDEST TREE HAS NOT BEEN ACCIDENTALLY CUT DOWN BY LOGGERS IN THE AMAZON
While logging in the Mats's Indigenous Reserve is indeed controversial and the Amazon rainforest is shrinking, the Rainforest Protection Coalition does not exist... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS INVESTIGATE DEATH OF 10,000 ENDANGERED 'SCROTUM' FROGS IN PERU
The Titicaca water frog Telmatobius culeus is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN red list on threatened species, and is endemic to the lake... READ MORE›
BRAZIL IN HUGE 'OIL KICKBACK' PROBE
Mail online uk petrobras scandal takes brazilian politicians to supreme court 13 hrs ago... READ MORE›
LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES WELCOME SYRIAN REFUGEES
Latin American countries are opening their doors to Syrians fleeing the civil war in their country as Europe struggles with a growing refugee crisis... READ MORE›
EXTRAORDINARY MIGRATION OF GIANT AMAZON CATFISH REVEALED
The dorado catfish travels 11,600km from the Andes to the mouth of the Amazon and back, but is threatened by dams and mining... READ MORE›
WILDLIFE BUTCHERS OF BELEN: THE TOWN THAT SERVES UP RARE SPECIES FOR A FEW DOLLARS
The monkeys only live in a small part of the Amazon basin in Peru and Brazil... READ MORE›
ROADS ARE ENCROACHING DEEPER INTO THE AMAZON RAINFOREST, STUDY SAYS
Oil and gas access roads in western Amazon could open up Pandoras box of environmental impacts... READ MORE›
THIS IS WHAT A MAN BEING EATEN ALIVE BY AN ANACONDA LOOKED LIKE
Rosolie has faced criticism from animal rights campaigners over the snake's welfare but he insisted that it is alive and well ... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS OF MARCHERS DEMAND JUST SOLUTION AT UN CLIMATE TALKS IN LIMA
Organisers said they hoped to get 10,000 or more out into the streets which would make this the biggest climate march Latin America has ever seen... READ MORE›
'AYAHUASCA IS CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS'
I think the ayahuasca tourism thing is definitely a two-edged sword... READ MORE›
HERE'S WHY SOME PEOPLE THINK BRAZIL IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A 'SOFT COUP'
But what happens in the coming weeks in Brazil has longer-term implications for elected socialist governments throughout Latin America... READ MORE›
MORE BABIES BORN WITH BIRTH DEFECTS
There has been a sharp rise in the number of cases of Zika in several other Latin American countries... READ MORE›
BRAZIL DECIDES TO OPEN IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT
Brazil's economy tanks as multibillion-dollar corruption scandal expands Eduardo Cunha, speaker of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, approved the launching of the impeachment proceedings... READ MORE›
WATCH MUFASA THE MOUNTAIN LION GET RELEASED INTO THE WILD AFTER SPENDING 20 YEARS CHAINED IN THE BACK OF A CIRCUS VAN
So far, 17 countries, not including the UK, have banned wild animals in circuses... READ MORE›
1ST CONFIRMED CASE OF ZIKA VIRUS IN ONTARIO, PROVINCE SAYS
Ontario has confirmed its first case of the Zika virus, provincial health officials say... READ MORE›
WHAT THE OLYMPICS MEANS FOR THE PEOPLE OF RIO
Guimaraes is better qualified than most Brazilians to make such comparisons, having been involved in every Olympics since 1980... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS MUST LET WORLD'S MOST ISOLATED TRIBES MAKE OWN DECISIONS
Can contact really be controlled as such, which presumably means controlling the newly-contacted indigenous peoples too?... READ MORE›
BRAZIL IS TENSE AHEAD OF IMPEACHMENT VOTE
If the impeachment measure is approved, it would require only a simple majority to clear Brazil's Senate, where Rousseff's chances for survival are even slimmer... READ MORE›
BRAZILIANS PANIC AS MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUS IS LINKED TO BRAIN DAMAGE IN THOUSANDS OF BABIES
RECIFE, Brazil -- Jusikelly da Silva was full of expectations for her baby... READ MORE›
HOW BRAZIL, THE DARLING OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD, CAME UNDONE
Big parts of the Brazil model, it turns out, were glued together with kickbacks, dirty money and lies... READ MORE›
BRAZIL ARRESTS 10 IN TERROR PLOT AS OLYMPICS NEAR OFFICIALS SAY
For more than a decade, and especially after the Sept. 11 attacks, Brazilian intelligence officials have been monitoring individuals suspected of links to terrorism... READ MORE›
DAWN TIMBER-LAUNDERING RAIDS CAST DOUBT ON 'SUSTAINABLE' BRAZILIAN WOOD
Most of Brazil's timber exports are certified as sustainably logged, but according to police and prosecutors in Para state at least 80 percent is illegally felled... READ MORE›
BOOM THREATENS A THIRD OF THE WORLDS FRESHWATER FISH
If the dams are built, tropical freshwater biodiversity, which is at its most diverse in the three river basins, could be devastated, say the authors... READ MORE›
60-YEAR-OLD MAN PLANS TO SWIM THROUGH 107 COUNTRIES IN 450 DAYS
Strel's scariest encounter was with a stingray, which bit his son while they were swimming in the Amazon river... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S HAPPIEST COUNTRIES? THEY'RE ALL IN SOUTH AMERICA
The 10 happiest countries in the world are all in South America for the first time in Gallup's 10-year history assessing the world's happiness... READ MORE›
BRAZIL ON THE FRONT LINES IN BATTLE TO PROTECT AMAZON
IBAMA, on the other hand, has under 2,000 agents tasked with monitoring the entire Brazilian Amazon, estimated at about 3.3 million square kilometers 1.3 million square miles ... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S ANTI-IMPEACHMENT PROTESTERS BLOCK HIGHWAYS AT RUSH HOUR
Demonstrators protesting the impeachment process threatening Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff occupied dozens of highways in major cities during rush hour Thursday morning, causing long backups... READ MORE›
BRAZIL TO DEPLOY ARMY IN FIGHT AGAINST VIRUS
Brazil's government says it will deploy 220,000 soldiers in its fight against mosquitoes spreading the Zika virus... READ MORE›
A WARRIOR TO THE END: DILMA ROUSSEFF A SINNER AND SAINT IN IMPEACHMENT FIGHT
Impeachment will be looked back on as a bad moment for Brazil, former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso told the Guardian... READ MORE›