Tag: Amazon
Cutting Brazil’s Amazon Leads to Boom and Bust Economy
A study of 286 Amazon municipalities found that deforestation brought quick benefits that were ...
In the Light of the Kerosene in the Brazilian Amazon
Pará, Brazilian Amazon, 1936 – The trouble began with the pounding of the drums. ...
UN Urges Brazil and Neighbors to Join Efforts to Save the Amazon
The just-released United Nations Environment program (UNEP) shows two sides of the human effect ...
Brazil Earmarks Half a Billion Dollars to Defend the Amazon
According to reports by Brazilian daily O Estado de S. Paulo, Brazil plans to ...
Brazil Has a Plan to Cut Deforestation by 70% in a Decade
The Brazilian government has just announced a plan to cut destruction of its Amazon ...
Amazon Fair in Brazil Draws Buyers from US, Canada and Japan
US$ 10 million in contracts were generated last week in Brazil during the business ...
Brazilian Amazon Travel Agency Signs Agreement to Fight Child Sex Tourism
If you Google "child sex tourism," you'll read about those who travel abroad to ...
Brazil’s Amazon Handicraft Industry Eyes the US and the Foreign Market
Brazilian entrepreneur Murillo Foresti, a representative of Coexcafe, a company from Canada that imports ...
Brazil’s Ancient Amazon Civilization More Developed than Thought
Scientists have discovered with the help of satellite imagery the remains of ancient once ...
Calling US Hypocrite Is Not the Best Way for Brazil to Save the Amazon
On July 21, 2008, a researcher from the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) met ...
