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BOGOTA, Colombia — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: In Brazil, unfinished water project leaves Indigenous villages without safe water
Turned upside down on the dirt floor, next to an artisanal flour mill, a huge water tank catches the eye of those passing through the Bem Viver community, in the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Fire and agriculture drive soil degradation in the southern Brazilian Amazon
Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in lasting damage to carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stocks, as well as to the ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Protecting Indigenous Amazon lands may also protect public health, study says
Healthy forests in protected Indigenous territories could help reduce the risk of certain illnesses for humans, a new study shows. Different factors influence how effective Indigenous territories are ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Brazil’s soya moratorium slowed Amazon deforestation. Now it’s challenged
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of triggered forest fire and deforestation for planting soya beans in the Amazon Rainforest, Vilhena - Rondonia state ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Brazil Is Developing a Weapon for Trade Wars: Fertilizer in the Amazon
AUTAZES, Brazil—In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, workers are preparing to dig a vertical shaft as wide as a subway tunnel half a mile down into the ground. It isn’t gold or oil hidden here in a ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Railway project in the Amazon raises questions over Brazil's efforts to stop deforestation
SAO PAULO — As Brazil seeks to boost its environmental credentials by hosting the United Nations’ climate summit, a proposal to build a railway through the Amazon has threatened to tarnish that image ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Save the Amazon or drill for oil? Brazil says it can do both
When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil returned to power, he had an ambitious goal: restoring his country’s image as a champion of climate action. He vowed to slash Brazil’s emissions of ...