Baby dolphins wash up on Brazil's Lake Tefe amid Amazon drought
STORY: The remains of rare baby river dolphins have been washing up on the shores of Brazil's Lake Tefe in recent weeks.The ...
Brazil court drops a suspect in Amazon slayings of a British journalist and an Indigenous advocate
A federal court in Brazil dismissed charges Tuesday against one of three men arrested for the killings of Indigenous peoples ...
Brazil to tap ESG bonds to preserve Amazon, forgoing dedicated debt, official says
Brazil has no plan to launch a dedicated sovereign Amazon bond, a senior treasury official told Reuters, and will instead fund protection of the world's biggest rainforest via its new environmental ...
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Brazil's Unique Approach to Amazon Conservation: No Sovereign Bonds Needed
Brazil has opted against launching a dedicated sovereign Amazon bond, choosing instead to utilize its environmental and ...
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How Can Brazil’s Amazon Resist Longer Floods And Stronger Droughts?
sunlight hits the leaves in Mamirauá Ecological Reservation in Amazonas in Brazil in 2022. To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive ...
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The Fires That Could Reshape the Amazon
Vast, diverse parts of Brazil are burning at the same time, forcing officials to rethink how to protect crucial ecosystems like the Amazon. By Manuela Andreoni Large parts of Brazil, a country ...
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Another Crisis in Brazil’s Amazon: Rising Crime
It’s not just the environment that's vulnerable to growing regional criminal groups, an expert writes.
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Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil
A new report links Brazil’s top meatpackers — JBS, Marfrig and Minerva — to widespread deforestation across the Pantanal, Amazon and Cerrado; of five farms investigated between October 2023 ...
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Brazil experiencing record-breaking wildfires as persistent drought affects the Amazon rainforest
The delicate ecosystem in the Amazon rainforest is threatened by drought. A series of record-breaking wildfires are currently burning in several regions in Brazil, threatening residents and some ...
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Brazil's Amazon drought disrupts residents' lives
MANACAPURU, Brazil, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Severe droughts across Brazil's Amazon rainforest region are drastically altering residents' lives as mobility is hampered by record-low levels on upper ...
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Brazil faces record wildfires and drought — and it may only get worse
Much of western Brazil is under stress and the Amazon basin rivers are registering at historic lows. Boats have been stranded on sandbanks, with people forced to transport goods on foot.
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Brazil's Lula pledges to finish paving road experts say could worsen Amazon deforestation
In a visit to see the damage caused by drought and fire in the Amazon, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledged to pave a road that environmentalists and some in his own government say ...