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Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls 31% under Lula
Jun 07, 2023 (AFP)
Satellite monitoring detected 1,986 square kilometers (767 square miles) of forest cover destroyed in Brazil's share of the world's biggest rainforest from Janu...
Lula leads tributes on anniversary of Amazon double murder
Jun 06, 2023 (AFP)
In a case that caused global outcry, Phillips and Pereira were killed on June 5, 2022 on a reporting trip to the edge of the Javari Valley, a far-flung Indigeno...
Widow urges care for Amazon on anniversary of double murder
Jun 05, 2023 (AFP)
In a case that drew a global outcry, Phillips and Pereira were killed on June 5, 2022 on a reporting trip to the edge of the Javari Valley, a far-flung Indigeno...
In Ecuador biosphere, battle lines form over mining plans
Jun 04, 2023 (AFP)
Mining companies want to exploit sites within the sprawling reserve, home to species like the spectacled bear. At least 12 mining concessions are in exploratory...
In Costa Rica, climate change threatens 'cloud forest'
Jun 02, 2023 (AFP)
In the forest, what a visitor should hear is the constant drip of moisture falling from the trees. Instead, it is the sound of dead branches snapping underfoot ...
Brazil's Congress passes cuts to Lula environment, Indigenous ministries
Jun 01, 2023 (AFP)
The measure, which easily cleared the lower house Wednesday, passed by a vote of 51 to nine in the Senate -- the latest in a series of setbacks for the Lula adm...
Brazil lawmakers vote to curb Indigenous peoples ministry
Jun 01, 2023 (AFP)
If approved by the Senate, the bill would remove the power of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to demarcate new reserves, returning that role instead to the M...
Amazon scientists simulate how warming may impact jungle
May 27, 2023 (AFP)
It is a simulation to see how the lungs of the world will endure global warming. The AmazonFACE project, co-financed by Brazil and the United Kingdom, is "an op...
'Patrol' film exposes Nicaragua forest threat from beef industry
May 27, 2023 (AFP)
"When I came here, I knew it was a reserve. I just stole the land. I didn't pay for it," he says calmly, staring away from the camera. "If they take me out of h...
Fate of Madrid's trees takes root in vote campaign
May 26, 2023 (AFP)
On the eve of Sunday's vote, the right-wing Popular Party (PP), which governs both the capital and the Madrid region, has come under attack for its renovation o...
A new tool for deforestation detection
May 19, 2023 (SPX)
logging, fires, insect infestation, disease, wind, drought, and other factors. In a recently published study, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth ...
China ends import ban on Australian timber
May 18, 2023 (AFP)
Timber was among a slew of Australian commodities hit with import bans and restrictions as diplomatic relations between Beijing and Canberra soured during the h...
UK director, Indigenous group ambushed in Brazil: activists
May 17, 2023 (AFP)
In the latest episode underscoring the risks to those fighting to defend the world's largest rainforest, respected Indigenous expert Neidinha Surui said she, he...
Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls in April
May 12, 2023 (AFP)
Satellite monitoring detected 329 square kilometers (127 square miles) of forest cover destroyed in Brazil's share of the world's biggest rainforest last month,...
A primal forest encircled by Ecuador port faces ruination
May 11, 2023 (AFP)
Cerro Blanco -- white hill in English -- is a vast tropical dry forest that has been gradually devoured by the port city of three million people. In the last 15...
Illegal mining booms in Brazilian Amazon 'promised land'
May 09, 2023 (AFP)
Nunes, 28, and his four colleagues are "garimpeiros," illegal miners who dig for precious minerals -- in their case, at a wildcat copper mine outside Canaa dos ...
Secret behind Amazonian 'dark earth' could help speed up forest restoration across the globe
May 07, 2023 (SPX)
Now, scientists from Brazil show that ADE could be a 'secret weapon' to boost reforestation - not only in the Amazon, where 18% or approximately 780,000 km2 has...
Britain pledges $100 mn for Brazil's Amazon Fund
May 05, 2023 (AFP)
"Beyond football, there are so many interests we have in common... (including) combatting climate change," Sunak told Lula as they met at 10 Downing Street in L...
Indigenous youths use tech as 'weapon' to protect Amazon
May 05, 2023 (AFP)
The 26-year-old Brazilian is one of the stars of Web Summit Rio, the world's biggest annual technology conference, which was held for the first time outside Eur...
Progressive climate change: desertification threatens Mediterranean forests
May 03, 2023 (SPX)
Mediterranean forests are not only hotspots of biodiversity, but they also provide critical ecosystem services. They protect against soil erosion, regulate the ...
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