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By Karla Mendes LAGO DO PURUZINHO/KARIPUNA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY/CALAMA, Brazil — The Lake Puruzinho community sits on a clear, fish-rich lake in the Brazilian Amazon, an area that, at first glance, ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: A gold-fueled mining rush scars Brazil’s Amazon, spiking deforestation and mercury risks
SAO PAULO (AP) — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury ...
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: How Brazil’s federal fiscal policy hinders Amazon Rainforest conservation (commentary)
The forests of the Brazilian Amazon are, by any measure, among the most important ecosystems on Earth. They absorb carbon on a planetary scale, regulate rainfall across South America, and shelter ...
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 ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Health: In the Brazilian Amazon, a Catholic Indigenous community endures amid land invasions and government neglect
Cristina de Souza and Bernardo Alves at the Sateré-Mawé Health and General Monitoring Base in the Andirá-Marau Indigenous Territory of Brazil in July. Credit: Hannah Lima Farbiarz In the creation ...