Amazonia

Green News

Scientists issue Amazon warning as up to 47% of rainforest at risk

The vital ecosystem could also flip between rainforest and Savanna-like vegetation if drought deepens, the research finds.

14/02/2024

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WATCH: Brazil's indigenous women march to protect their lands

Brazil's Supreme Court is debating the "time-frame argument" that says indigenous people cannot claim land as their own if they were not living there in 1988.

14/09/2023

Brazil

Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change

Eight Amazon nations called on industrialized countries to do more to help preserve the world's largest rainforest as they met at a major summit in Brazil to chart a common course on how to combat climate change.

09/08/2023

Brazil

Two-day Amazon summit set to focus on climate change and human rights

Eight South American countries are meeting in Brazil to thrash out co-ordinated policies for the Amazon basin.

08/08/2023

Colombia

Children found alive in the Amazon 40 days after plane crash

The frantic search for survivors began on 1 May after a single-engine propeller plane carrying six passengers crashed in the Amazon jungle.

10/06/2023

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WATCH: Indigenous Brazilians march ahead of trial over land future

Indigenous Brazilians marched through Brasilia on Tuesday ahead of a hearing on a proposed law that will limit their land rights.

07/06/2023

Brazil

Calls for justice for duo murdered in Amazon rain forest a year ago

A year after their deaths, relatives led demonstrations in several Brazilian cities in memory of a British journalist and an indigenous expert murdered in the Amazon rain forest. Dom Phillips was an environmental reporter and Bruno Pereira was his guide.

06/06/2023

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Oil spill in Ecuador's Amazon region a result of 'sabotage'

The spill was captured in a video by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon, 10km from Lago Agrio, the capital of Sucumbios in northeast Ecuador.

11/05/2023

World News

Brazil's Lula recognises 1,200 square km of Indigenous land

Brazil has recognised six Indigenous areas, most of which are in the threatened Amazon rainforest.

29/04/2023

Green News

Brazil: Illegal mining has caused Indigenous ‘genocide’, Lula says

President Lula wants to reduce deforestation and gold mining in the Amazon. He has done so in the past - during his 2003-2010 tenure in office, Amazon deforestation dropped by 72 per cent.

23/01/2023

Green News

Brazil makes official bid to host UN climate talks in Amazonia

The north eastern city of Belem has been named as the potential host of COP30 as President Lula fulfils promises made at COP27.

16/01/2023

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Santa Claus delivers presents in the Amazon

A charity aims to give presents to 4,500 children in poor communities along Brazil's Amazon by sending Santa Claus to see them on a river boat.

19/12/2022

World News

Watch : Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reaches a record high

Deforestation in the Brazilian part of the Amazon rainforest has hit a record level, the highest since satellite tracking began in 2015, according to government data.

12/11/2022

Green News

Forest fires and illegal deforestation devastate the Brazilian Amazon

Fires in the Brazilian Amazon increased 18 per cent compared to last year, while deforestation is at a record high, according to Greenpeace Brazil.

04/09/2022

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Fires ravage Brazil's Amazon rainforest

Fires rage in the Amazon rainforest, near Porto Velho, state of Rondonia, northern Brazil. Experts say the fires are caused mainly by illegal farmers, ranchers and speculators clearing land and torching the trees.

01/09/2022

World News

Lula vows to restore ties with EU if elected Brazil's next president

Presidential hopeful, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, vows to restore ties with EU if he is elected in October.

30/08/2022

Brazil

In Manaus, a carpet of rubbish covers the Amazon River’s tributaries

Set in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, the Brazillian city of Manaus has a massive rubbish problem.

04/07/2022

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Santa visits children in Amazon riverine communities

Santa Claus went around the Solimões River Saturday, stopping at riverine communities along the jungle shoreline in the Amazon basin to bring gifts for the children and Christmas cheer for everyone else.

19/12/2021

Cult

Salgado's exhibition highlights Amazon forest destruction

Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado teamed up with musician Jean-Michel to highlight the destruction of the Amazon forest, and to slam Bolsonaro

22/05/2021

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Brazil's Amazon riverside communities receive COVID jabs

Brazil has recorded nearly 10 million cases of COVID-19 and 234,000 deaths.

10/02/2021