Tag: environment
A Brazilian Senator’s Proposal: A World Tribunal to Judge Environmental Crimes
In July 1981, during the 33rd Meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Progress ...
Brazil’s Amazon Deforestation Is Protected and Encouraged by the Constitution
In the last few weeks, a series of major events has signaled the urgent ...
Brazil Approves Construction of Another Power Plant in the Amazon
Brazil’s Environmental Protection Institute (Ibama) has just authorized the construction of another hydroelectric power ...
Greens Lose, Tractors Already Roaring in Brazilian Amazon’s Belo Monte
The dry season has arrived in the Amazon and Norte Energia, the consortium that ...
Brazil Can’t Explain a Four-fold Increase in Deforestation in the Amazon
Brazil’s Environment minister, Izabella Teixeira, says that the recent surge in rainforest deforestation in ...
Brazil Wants to Relax More Restrictive Agricultural Code
Brazil’s minister of Agriculture, Reinhold Stephanes, during a meeting with journalists last week in ...
Brazilian Bio Soluções’s Line of Excrement-Run Generators Is a Hit
Brazil has a new line of generators, engines and motorized pumps that, apart from ...
In 10 Years Brazil Wants Its Market Share in Meat to Be 44.5% of World Trade
Brazil will be able to increase farm produce, including meat, without further negative impact ...
Brazilians Divided at COP-15. Chief of Delegation Pans Former Environment Minister
In response to a proposal by Brazilian former Environment minister and senator Marina Silva, ...
Rio Tries to Ban Coconut Sales in the Beach. Measure Upsets Cariocas
Rio de Janeiro was about to lose one of its most enduring images, that ...