Christian Science Monitor16h
Brazil’s president promised to protect the Amazon. This year, deforestation fell 31%.
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Biden will visit the Amazon rainforest as part of six-day trip to Latin America
The White House says President Joe Biden will become the first sitting president to visit the Amazon rainforest later this ...
Brazil prepares to remove illegal Amazon gold miners from Munduruku land
Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest ...
Criminals may be leveraging climate change as record acreage burns in Brazil's Amazon
Brazil’s Amazon dry season just ended with a staggering 846% increase in burned forest area compared to the year before ...
Police in Brazil indict Colombian fish trader in high profile killing in Amazon region
Brazilian police have indicted a Colombian fish trader as the person who planned the slayings of Indigenous expert Bruno ...
Reuters12d
Brazil fines meat packers $64 million for buying cattle from deforested Amazon land
BRASILIA, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Brazil's environmental protection agency IBAMA has imposed ... for raising or buying cattle on ...
Newsday6d
Brazilian state law overturns soy moratorium that helped curb Amazon deforestation
AGUA CLARA, Brazil — A historic agreement that's helped curb deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon for nearly two decades suffered a major blow after Mato Grosso, the country´s largest soybean ...
The New York Times10d
The New Threat to Brazil’s Forests: Chemicals
Authorities use satellites to track deforestation caused by chain saws or fire. Now criminals are using chemicals to degrade trees — and evade detection. Authorities use satellites to track ...
RTE Online18h
Record drought in Amazon impacts 420,000 children
More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought that is impacting water supplies and river transport, according to UNICEF.