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Pará state is hotspot for forest loss, fuelling CO2 emissions New economic plan aims for sustainable use of natural resources Businesses seek help to build processing facilities in Amazon BELEM, ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The state of Pará has created two new conservation areas along the Amazonian coastline, placing almost all of its mangroves under federal ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: JBS and the EU’s Exposure to Human Rights Violations and Illegal Deforestation in Pará, Brazil
Brazil is a custodian to two thirds of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest. The biome is home to millions of Brazilians, including hundreds of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities, ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: Brazil cattle traceability program to limit deforestation in Pará state
If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new traceability program will keep tabs on the millions of cattle present throughout the state of Pará, in northern Brazil, where the Amazon ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: Brazilian state launches mandatory tracking of cattle to stop deforestation
SAO PAULO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's Para state, which leads the country for the highest levels of Amazon rainforest destruction, will launch a mandatory program to track cattle in a bid to crack ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: Brazil's JBS ramps up cattle tracking in Amazonian state of Para
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil's JBS, the world's largest meat company, has delivered 123,765 ear tags to individually track cattle in Para state, according to a statement on Monday, marking a possible ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: In Brazil, mining giant Vale is sued over metal contamination found in Indigenous peoples
Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination found in the bodies of Xikrin ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: What’s behind the alarming rise in birth defects in Brazil’s illegal gold mining capital?
In Pará state children are being born with neurological disorders. Experts note similarities to the mercury poisoning disaster in Minamata, Japan – but say that is not the whole story Seven-year-old ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: Poverty is killing the Amazon rainforest. Treating soil and farmers better can help save what's left
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: New Fortress Energy Places Barcarena LNG Terminal in Pará, Brazil into Operation
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- New Fortress Energy Inc. (Nasdaq: NFE) (“NFE” or the “Company”) today announced that its 6 MTPA (300 TBtu) Barcarena LNG terminal located in Pará, Brazil is now operational ...