Tag: Global warming

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Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Will See More Changes in Five Decades than in the Last 21,000 Years

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. Roughly ...

Ibama official looking at tree felled illegally. Photo: Ibama

Brazil Does a U-turn on Environmental Policy and Sides with Big Farmers

Environmental issues have figured prominently in Brazil as of late, and the Brazilian Forest ...

King Harald V of Norway with an indigenous group in Brazil. Photo courtesy of Rainforest Foundation Norway

World’s Religious Leaders Get Together in Norway to Rescue the Rainforest

Religious leaders from around the world are meeting for the first time with conservationists ...

End of a Myth: Hydropower Doesn’t Mean Green Energy

From the Amazon Basin to boreal forests, and from the Mekong to the Himalayan ...

Roads, Railways, Waterways, Dams: an Elaborate Plan to Kill the Amazon

The Amazon’s rivers once were sufficient for commerce, now international commodities traders want to ...

Brazil’s Countdown to Copenhagen

Brazil has followed a long and winding road to reach the Fifteenth Conference of ...

Brazilians Take On Global Warming and Steal the Show

Brazilians take global warming seriously, much more than the rest of the world. The ...

Brazilian Press Steps Up Coverage of Global Warming

Newspapers from Brazil are covering climate change more frequently, according to a study published ...

The Brazilian Amazon may become a huge dry savannah

Global Warming Won’t Spare Brazil’s Amazon, Which Will Turn into Dry Savannah

An environmental group said Thursday, April 5, some of the world's greatest natural treasures ...

Traveling by boat on the Brazilian Amazon

Brazil’s Temperatures May Rise Up to 6 Degrees by Turn of Century

Like other developing countries, Brazil is highly vulnerable to climate change: the pressures of ...

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