Brazil's Ibama Staff Recommend Against Petrobras Drilling in Amazon Region
In May 2023, Ibama denied Petrobras' request for an offshore drilling license for the Foz do Amazonas area off the coast of ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
A conservationist is building bridges in the Amazon so monkeys can cross the road
Award-winning biologist Fernanda Abra’s Reconecta Project is building canopy bridges across highways in Brazil to protect ...
Brazil Builds on ‘Under Pressure’ Procedural Fever With ‘Suture’ Even if Exec Laments Gone Days of Long-Running Seasons
Brazil taps into procedurals with mix of crime thriller and medical drama 'Suture,' exec laments shrunken seasons and days ...