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By Stefanie Eschenbacher SANTAREM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to ...
Forest loss reached 371 square miles during the period, the second-highest total for May since the current monitoring system ...
A large-scale federal operation to remove cattle raised illegally in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve has triggered ...
By André Schröder Brazil is a country shaped by highways. The transportation model adopted by President Juscelino Kubitschek ...
“The Amazon’s hydrological cycle is becoming more extreme,” co-author Roel Brienen of the University of Leeds said in a ...
Likely approval of bill easing environmental licensing requirements enjoys leniency from federal government due to interest ...
By paying a premium for wild rubber, Veja hopes to incentivise producers to keep the forest standing. But money alone doesn’t ...
Critics fear oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon River is a step backwards from Lula’s ‘zero emissions’ goal.
With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions ...
By the late 1990s, fewer than 5,000 red-tailed amazons remained. The parrot, native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, depends on guanandi trees to survive.
Brazil’s environmental goals suffered a major setback in May as deforestation in the Amazon surged 92% compared to the same ...
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