Tag: deforestation
US Big Tech Behind Trump’s 50% Tariff on Brazilian Imports
A powerful lobby group funded by major US tech firms, including Google, Meta, Apple, ...
Luxury Leather Goods from Europe Are Contributing to Deforestation in Brazil
Designer brands such as Coach, Fendi, and Hugo Boss have been listed as buyers ...
Niobium – A Radioactive Sword of Damocles Hangs over Brazil’s Northern Amazon
Balaio at the upper Rio Negro in the Northwest of the State of Amazonas ...
The Whole World Wants the Amazon Protected. But Who Is Going to Pay for This?
When the Amazon burns it has an impact far beyond its own boundariesHolly Young ...
Arsonists Set Brazil’s fields, Amazon and Pantanal Ablaze
Over the last week, some 2,700 fires have ripped through Brazil’s southern São Paulo ...
Amazon Rivers Running Dry As Droughts Worsen, They Pave Roads and Deforestation Goes On
Behind a narrow border of trees, a crop duster sprays clouds of agrochemicals onto ...
Discovery of new species of giant anaconda, the world’s biggest snake, in the Amazon, shocks scientists
The green anaconda has long been considered one of the Amazon’s most formidable and ...
Threat of Extinction to Brazilian Primates Is Also a Threat to the Forest
We tend to think of debt as purely financial, but we can also reap ...
Amazon Drought Can Turn the Forest into a Savannah
A severe drought in Brazil’s Amazon has damaged the forest ecosystem, brought chaos for ...
Amazon Drought Becomes Time Bomb for Pandemic Diseases
Home to the greatest biodiversity on the planet, the Amazon is also a ticking ...
