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Year: 2014

News Latin America Moves Towards Decarbonising the Economy When the advances made towards curbing global warming are analysed in the first 12 days of December in... November 18, 2014

Kicking the Habit: US and China Must Drop Fossil Fuel Addiction

Blog Kicking the Habit: US and China Must Drop Fossil Fuel Addiction On Tuesday night the world's two biggest polluters – the US and China – announced a surprisingly ambitious... November 13, 2014

Indigenous Voices on Climate Change

Blog Indigenous Voices on Climate Change Mayalú Txucarramãe brings perspective from the Amazon to climate leaders, Al Gore in Brazil November 11, 2014

News Brazilian Indians Marking Lands Themselves Due to Government’s Delay The Munduruku Indians have begun marking their ancestral lands in the Amazon region on their own, tired of... November 10, 2014

News Brazilian Judge Sides with Tribe over Land Threatened by Dams In a struggle between a Brazilian indigenous tribe and the federal government over two dams that would flood... November 7, 2014

News Brazil Pushes Amazon to the "Brink of the Abyss" Scientists Warn Destruction of the Amazon rainforest has reached epic proportions under the leadership of Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff, who... November 5, 2014

Press Release Defying Brazilian Government, Indigenous Group Proceeds with Demarcation of Amazonian Territory Munduruku people "auto-demarcate" lands threatened by Tapajós River mega-dams November 5, 2014

Guardians of Life: The Indigenous Women Fighting Oil Exploitation in the Amazon

News Guardians of Life: The Indigenous Women Fighting Oil Exploitation in the Amazon Felipe Jacome's set of photos Amazon: Guardians of Life documents the struggles of indigenous women defending the Ecuadoran... November 3, 2014

The March to Paris Goes Through Rio

Blog The March to Paris Goes Through Rio Brazil still faces a number of obstacles to scaling a decentralized model for solar, most notably taxes and... November 3, 2014

Meet the Amazon Tribespeople Who Beat Chevron in Court – But Are Still Fighting for Clean Water

News Meet the Amazon Tribespeople Who Beat Chevron in Court – But Are Still Fighting for Clean Water With the judgment in their favor tied up in a New York courtroom, indigenous residents of Ecuador's oil-polluted... October 31, 2014

News The Amazon Has Started to Malfunction, Brazilian Scientist Says Twenty percent of the Amazon is deforested and another 20% is degraded. The Amazon rainforest has begun to... October 31, 2014

News Why the Result of Brazil's Elections Could Be Bad News For the Climate Rousseff is coupling her strategy of hydropower expansion in the Amazon with a heavier reliance on fossil fuels.... October 31, 2014

A Rising North for the Amazon

Blog A Rising North for the Amazon Growing up in the Amazon, it didn't cross my mind that one day I would be sitting in... October 31, 2014

Donny Rico Gives Credit Where Credit Is Due: Judge Kaplan

Video Blog Donny Rico Gives Credit Where Credit Is Due: Judge Kaplan Chevron's retaliatory RICO case against the Ecuadorians and their lawyers would not have come about were it not... October 30, 2014

Press Release U.S. Judge Kaplan Held Investments In Chevron When He Ruled for Company Donziger Calls On Judge to Review Investments and Make Full Disclosure of All Ties to Oil Company October 29, 2014

Indigenous Groups Occupy Airport Near Amazon Oil Reserves

News Indigenous Groups Occupy Airport Near Amazon Oil Reserves 'Without a satisfactory response to the interests of the Amazon Indians, the measures [of force] will get more... October 29, 2014

News Elections in Brazil: a Win for Rousseff, and China Now that president Dilma Rousseff has won re-election, Chinese investment in Brazilian energy and agriculture looks set to... October 29, 2014

New Power for Bad, Old Habits? Why Brazil Must Change Its Energy Path

Blog New Power for Bad, Old Habits? Why Brazil Must Change Its Energy Path There is an urgent need to, as another Brazilian energy expert has said, ‘open up and manage a... October 24, 2014

Sao Paulo Running Out of Water as Rain-Making Amazon Vanishes

News Sao Paulo Running Out of Water as Rain-Making Amazon Vanishes South America's biggest and wealthiest city may run out of water by mid-November if it doesn't rain soon October 24, 2014

Land Rights for Peru’s Amazon Key in Climate Fight

News Land Rights for Peru's Amazon Key in Climate Fight Natives must gain control of titles to stave off deforestation and reduce illegal logging, activists say October 24, 2014

Press Release Rainforest Communities Seek Criminal Investigation of Chevron CEO Watson Before International Court Quito, Ecuador – Rainforest communities in Ecuador today requested that an international court open a criminal investigation of... October 23, 2014

The Human Impact of the Belo Monte Dam Has Already Begun: Displacement and Despair in Altamira

Blog The Human Impact of the Belo Monte Dam Has Already Begun: Displacement and Despair in Altamira Since the construction of the Belo Monte dam began, the city of Altamira has been in a state... October 23, 2014

Hall of SHAME? We Have a Winner!

Blog Hall of SHAME? We Have a Winner! There are many corporations worthy of being condemned for their actions that harm people and the planet, but... October 22, 2014

News Amazon Deforestation Spikes 190 Percent After Long Reported Decline Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is up 190 percent for the months of August and September compared to... October 20, 2014

Brazil’s Tapajós River Dam Complex: Lessons from the Failures of Belo Monte

Blog Brazil's Tapajós River Dam Complex: Lessons from the Failures of Belo Monte Given the growing scrutiny of Brazil's dam-building boom, the Tapajós River is now a key battleground in the... October 16, 2014

The World We Want and How To Get There

Blog The World We Want and How To Get There Join us at Bioneers this weekend! October 15, 2014

Amazon Watch’s 9th Annual Luncheon

Photo Gallery Amazon Watch's 9th Annual Luncheon Thank you to all who joined Amazon Watch at our 9th Annual Luncheon in San Francisco yesterday –... October 9, 2014

Just Two Clicks So Yasunidos Can Win €100,000 to Protect the Heart of the Amazon!

Blog Just Two Clicks So Yasunidos Can Win €100,000 to Protect the Heart of the Amazon! Yasunidos, the Ecuadorian youth collective that launched a movement to preserve the most biodiverse place on earth, has... October 9, 2014

Amazon in Focus 2014

Report Amazon in Focus 2014 Plus Our Annual Financial Report for 2013 October 8, 2014

“Indigenous peoples face horrid state violence. Through you, we stand up to this violence and demand a better future. Thank you for your great work!”