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Brazilian Amazon’s Natural Gas Pipeline Gets Cash Infusion

Brazil's BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank) announced that it has approved a funding of 2.49 ...

Whale Strayed in Brazil’s Amazon Dies Before It Can Be Rescued

A Minke whale that had strayed deep into the Amazon rainforest has been found ...

Brazil Goes Prospecting for Oil Inside the Amazon

Environmentalists all over the globe are concerned that the Brazilian Amazon, one of the ...

Brazilian Amazon Loggers Let Greenpeace Activists Go After 2-Day Siege

Eight Greenpeace activists who were prevented from leaving an Amazon town after having been ...

Buying Pieces of the Amazon Is Useless, Says Brazilian Indian Leader in London

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, a Brazilian Indian shaman from the Yanomami people, delivered a letter ...

Organic Global Community Gathers in Brazil for BioFach Latin America

Organic products from 12 countries will be presented by 300 exhibitors during the BioFach ...

Saving the Amazon: Brazil Gets Deforestation Zero by 2015 Plan

A group of nine Brazilian non-governmental organizations has launched in Brazilian capital BrasÀ­lia a ...

Brazil’s Land Reform Is Spurring Amazon Deforestation, Greenpeace Claims

Brazil's government has promised to investigate allegations that its policy of settling landless communities ...

Less Profit to Cut Brazilian Amazon Reduces Deforestation by 1/3

Destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has dropped by nearly a third during the last ...

Madeira River in the Brazilian Amazon

Brazil’s Pharaonic Project for the Amazon Threatens Humans and Nature

In recent weeks, the Brazilian government has turned to the difficult task of building ...