ChevronTexaco on trial

October 21, 2003. High-level corporate lawyers from ChevronTexaco sit in the same packed muggy courtroom as bare-breasted Amazonian men and women …

Hackers' paradise

A weak environmental regime in Brazil allows free rein to Asian logging companies to plunder through the Amazon forests

A tale of two peoples

Just as Brazil and Nigeria lie Geographically parallel to each other along the Atlantic, the fates of their seem sealed in a similar fashion. …

Flame in the rainforest

LATHA JISHNU discovers how indigenous communities in Ecuador are fighting to protect Amazonia from oil extraction

Battle for the Internet

As the Internet becomes the public square and the marketplace of our world, it is increasingly becoming a contested terrain. Its potential for …

A mythical tragedy

At the root of the tragedy of commons lies not the inherent selfishness of people, but the imposition of practices and projects alien to the …

Blocking biopiracy

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Con job

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THE AMAZON BASIN

PERU

Source not sinks

Deforestation accelerating

Logged-out

Behind the frontier

CONTESTED FRONTIERS IN AMAZONIA Marianne Schmink and Charles H Wood Publisher: Columbia University Press Price: $35

AMAZON BASIN

Saviour messenger

City lost in Amazon

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Cameras on a tricycle

Google>> Photography • South America

ECUADOR

Off the logs

Amazon tribe makes first contact with outside world

Health officials are worried that some members of the group may have contracted influenza

Amazon, a click away

Maps>> Rainforest • Brazil

Checking gold fever

Brazil develops a cheap device to increase gold yield and control mercury pollution in the devastated Amazon basin