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LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Deep in Brazil’s Amazonas and amid drought, midwives remain crucial
Deep in the Amazonas region of Brazil, Mayleane Melo leans on her red sofa to ease the pain of a contraction. Her baby is coming. Next to her is Tabita dos Santos Moraes - one of hundreds of midwives ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat
SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon drops by nearly 31% compared to previous year
FILE - A river borders an area that has been illegally deforested by land-grabbers and cattle farmers in an extractive reserve in Jaci-Parana, Rondonia state, Brazil, July 11, 2023. AGUA CLARA, Brazil ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Brazil suspends Amazon Soy Moratorium, raising fears of deforestation spike
Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, on Aug. 18, less than three months before the nation hosts the COP30 climate summit. The ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Brazil’s illegal gold miners carve out new Amazon hotspots in conservation units
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration reduced the expansion of illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon, but miners keep finding new sites. In 15 conservation units, illegal gold ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: A gold-fueled mining rush scars Brazil’s Amazon, spiking deforestation and mercury risks
Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury contamination.
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Brazil says it’s a climate leader. Not everyone buys it.
BELÉM, Brazil — Brazil intended this year’s United Nations climate talks now underway in the Amazon rainforest, to be the capstone of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s effort to establish the ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Save the Amazon or Drill for Oil? Brazil Says It Can Do Both.
Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it’s a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story. By Ana Ionova ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat
SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...