Tag: Amazon

Brazil’s Defense Minister Wants Greater Military Presence in the Amazon

Brazil’s Minister of Defense and vice president, José Alencar, says that there should be ...

Brazil’s Industrial Park Committed to Ban Illegal Amazon Timber

The seven municipal administrations that comprise the Greater ABC region of metropolitan São Paulo ...

Brazilian Amazon Expecting More Heat and Less Rain

Temperatures in the Amazon region are expected to exceed their historical average in the ...

Brazil Amazonas’s Drought Worst in a Century

Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, and the entire eastern region of the ...

Drought Leaves Amazon Populations in Brazil Isolated Without Water, Food and Medicine

The drought in the Amazon basin which has limited navigation in many tributaries leaving ...

New Brazilian Law Opens the Amazon for Sustainable Development

The idea is to combat the deforestation of the Amazon while taking advantage of ...

Expert Pans New Brazil’s Forest Bill As Harmful to the Amazon

The bill before the National Congress for the regulation of public forest management (PL ...

US Mission Learns First Hand of Brazil’s Fears that US Might Invade Amazon

Latinamericans are ever more suspicious of President George Bush intentions in the region, said ...

Brazilian Ministers Tell Their Vision of a Sustainable Amazon

Brazil’s Ministers of National Integration, Ciro Gomes, and Environment, Marina Silva, went to the ...

Brazil Senate Opens Hearings on Sustainable Development in the Amazon

The sustainable development plan for the Amazon region, in Brazil, which has been in ...