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BELEM, Brazil (AP) — A group of activists skirmished with security on Tuesday at United Nations climate talks in Brazilian Amazon city Belem, briefly trying to force their way into the main venue ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Security: 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 » Security: Brazil's Amazon rainforest at risk as key protection under threat
The Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge of deforestation as efforts grow to overturn a long-standing ban that has protected it. The ban - which prohibits the sale of soya grown on land ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Security: 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 » Security: Brazil's Amazon deforestation falls 11% even as fires surge to record levels
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 » Security: Exclusive: Soy trading firms to abandon Amazon protection pact in Brazil
ADM, Bunge, Cargill, Cofco signed 2006 agreement to protect Brazil's Amazon forest with soy farming moratorium Mato Grosso law strips tax incentives from conservation program participants Emboldened ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Security: On the frontline of the Amazon land war
TERRA NOSSA, Brazil — In 2024, Mongabay investigative reporter Fernanda Wenzel traveled to one of the most dangerous spots in the Brazilian Amazon — a region where a silent land war is destroying the ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Security: Brazil regulator approves Petrobras plan in Foz do Amazonas with reservations
Brazilian federal environmental regulator Ibama has approved, with reservations, the results of the pre-operational assessment campaign carried out by Petrobras last month in the Foz do Amazonas basin ...