Brazil's Ibama staff recommend against Petrobras drilling in Amazon region
The technical staff at Brazil's environmental agency Ibama recommended that the body deny authorization for Petrobras to ...
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 ...
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‘Loss we cannot afford’: Brazil’s Lula under fire over Amazon oil drilling
Despite presiding over a major cut-down of Amazon deforestation, Brazil's left-wing president has raised environmentalists' ...
Isolated Indigenous man makes brief contact with outside world, then returns to tribe in the Amazon rainforest
A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to ...
Watch: Sinkholes threaten thousands in Brazil
A state of emergency has been declared in the Brazilian Amazon after massive sinkholes opened up, threatening thousands of ...
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Brazil targets illegal logging in major Amazon raids
PORTO VELHO, Brazil, Feb 17 - Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in ...
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Oil drilling in the mouth of the Amazon – Lula on a course to disaster (commentary)
The mounting pressure on Brazil’s federal environmental agency (IBAMA) to approve the disastrous project to extract oil from ...
Sinkholes appear in Amazon as Brazilian city declares emergency
A city in Brazil has declared a state of emergency after a number of huge sinkholes opened up in recent weeks. Several ...
Brazil: 'Cocaine rivers' in the Amazon plague the region
Since Brazil stepped up its fight against illegal air transport, drug traffickers who transport drugs from producer countries ...
Brazil Waterway Operator Extends Selloff On Drought Loss
Hidrovias do Brasil SA, an operator of barges that transports soybeans and corn via the Amazon and its tributaries, extended ...