Tag: deforestation
Worried About the Economy and Corruption Brazilians Have Been Neglecting the Amazon
It’s never easy to predict what will happen next in Brazil. A year ago, ...
Global Forest Watch Detecting Record Forest Loss in the Amazon
Brazil topped the list of the world’s most important Places to Watch for deforestation, ...
Don’t Expect Brazil’s Cerrado Forest to Be Saved by the Corporate World
To the south of the Amazon basin lies a huge savannah known as the ...
Mining Is Responsible for 10 Percent of Deforestation in the Amazon
Nearly ten percent of all the deforestation occurring in the Brazilian Amazon between 2005 ...
Cattle Ranchers in the Amazon Could Earn More Farming. But They Wouldn’t Be Happy
Picture the Brazilian Amazon. You probably don’t see a lot of cows in that ...
The Revocation of Brazil’s Pro-Deforestation Decree Has No Teeth
On August 23, 2017, Brazil’s president Michel Temer issued a decree revoking the RENCA ...
Zero Deforestation Is the Only Answer in this Side of the Amazon
Perched at the easternmost edge of the Amazon rainforest is Maranhão, one of Brazil’s ...
Under Pressure to Curb Deforestation, Brazil Sends Mixed Message to the World
Last week saw a busy, but contradictory, stream of actions likely to impact Amazonian ...
Eating Less Beef Seems to Be the Only Way to End Amazonian Deforestation
Beef production has become a major driver of tropical deforestation, responsible for as much ...
