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SATELLITE EYE ON EARTH: SEPTEMBER 2017 - IN PICTURES
The Bosphorus, also called the Istanbul Strait, divides Europe lower half of the image from Asia upper ... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S WORST MONTH EVER FOR FOREST FIRES BLAMED ON HUMAN ACTIVITY
The Amazonian state of Para was the worst affected, with a 229 percent increase in fires from last year... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SUSPENDS AMAZON RESERVE PLAN, BUT THREATS REMAIN
READ MORE Brazil court suspends mining on Amazon reserve Instead of combatting illegal mining, the government wants to legalise it... READ MORE›
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EX-PRESIDENT LULA JOINS BRAZILS CABINET GAINING LEGAL SHIELD
In my government, President Lula will have the necessary powers to help us, to help Brazil, Ms. Rousseff said... READ MORE›
VICE PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL EMERGES FROM SHADOWS
In some ways, this leaves the president even more reliant on Mr. Temer, whom Ms. Rousseff named as her chief negotiator with the fractious Congress this year... READ MORE›
NO, THE WORLD'S OLDEST TREE HAS NOT BEEN ACCIDENTALLY CUT DOWN BY LOGGERS IN THE AMAZON
While logging in the Mats's Indigenous Reserve is indeed controversial and the Amazon rainforest is shrinking, the Rainforest Protection Coalition does not exist... READ MORE›
ALARM SPREADS IN BRAZIL OVER A VIRUS AND A SURGE IN MALFORMED INFANTS
Brazil waged war on the Aedes aegypti mosquito for decades during the 20th century before a vaccine was developed for yellow fever... READ MORE›
MY TRAVELS WITH POPE FRANCIS IN BOLIVIA
An estimated 1.5 million people are expected for Tuesday's Mass with Pope Francis in Quito, Ecuador... READ MORE›
TEMPERS FLARE IN BRAZIL OVER INTERCEPTS OF CALLS BY EX-PRESIDENT LULA
A judge in the capital, Brasilia, issued an injunction against the move, arguing that Ms. Rousseff may have violated the law in appointing Mr. da Silva... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS MAY BE LINKED TO SURGE IN RARE SYNDROME IN BRAZIL
The virus, called Zika, made its way to Brazil recently but is spreading rapidly around Latin America and the Caribbean... READ MORE›
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION DECLARES ZIKA VIRUS PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY
Zika alone would never be a public health emergency of international concern, he said... READ MORE›
LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES WELCOME SYRIAN REFUGEES
Latin American countries are opening their doors to Syrians fleeing the civil war in their country as Europe struggles with a growing refugee crisis... READ MORE›
EXTRAORDINARY MIGRATION OF GIANT AMAZON CATFISH REVEALED
The dorado catfish travels 11,600km from the Andes to the mouth of the Amazon and back, but is threatened by dams and mining... READ MORE›
WILDLIFE BUTCHERS OF BELEN: THE TOWN THAT SERVES UP RARE SPECIES FOR A FEW DOLLARS
The monkeys only live in a small part of the Amazon basin in Peru and Brazil... READ MORE›
RECORD BRAZIL PROTESTS PUT ROUSSEFF'S FUTURE IN DOUBT
The corruption scandal has already strained Rousseff's ties with her main coalition partner, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party PMDB ... READ MORE›
JUDGE BLOCKS BRAZILS EX-PRESIDENT FROM CABINET POST
The latest twist in the crisis underscores the tumult in Brazil over Mr. da Silva's nomination... READ MORE›
ROADS ARE ENCROACHING DEEPER INTO THE AMAZON RAINFOREST, STUDY SAYS
Oil and gas access roads in western Amazon could open up Pandoras box of environmental impacts... READ MORE›
THIS IS WHAT A MAN BEING EATEN ALIVE BY AN ANACONDA LOOKED LIKE
Rosolie has faced criticism from animal rights campaigners over the snake's welfare but he insisted that it is alive and well ... READ MORE›
HERE'S WHY SOME PEOPLE THINK BRAZIL IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A 'SOFT COUP'
But what happens in the coming weeks in Brazil has longer-term implications for elected socialist governments throughout Latin America... READ MORE›
MORE BABIES BORN WITH BIRTH DEFECTS
There has been a sharp rise in the number of cases of Zika in several other Latin American countries... READ MORE›
PERU'S ILLEGAL GOLD MINES ARE DEVASTATING THE AMAZON RAIN FOREST
Peru, the largest gold producer in Latin America and the sixth largest in the world, has long struggled with illegal gold mining... READ MORE›
ACTIVISTS DECRY TEMER'S AMAZON DEFORESTATION BILL
According to parliamentary watchdog group Congresso em Foco, the agriculture caucus holds 230 seats in Brazil's 513-seat lower house and 24 in the 81-member Senate... READ MORE›
ZIKA WARNING SPOTLIGHTS LATIN AMERICAS FIGHT AGAINST MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES
RIO DE JANEIRO -- In the campaign against mosquitoes, Brazil has deployed soldiers to destroy habitats where the insects thrive... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | SOUTH AMERICA'S INDIGENOUS GROUPS USED TO LINE UP WITH THE LEFT. NOT ANYMORE.
As indigenous leaders in states such as Amazonas have defected to Venezuela's opposition, the strains with the government have worsened... READ MORE›
FOR LATIN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALISTS DEATH IS A CONSTANT COMPANION
Berta Caceres Flores of Honduras speaks in 2015 to a crowd near the Gualcarque River, the site of a massive dam construction project... READ MORE›
EVEN THE MILITARY MAY NOT BE ENOUGH TO PROTECT AN ENDANGERED AMAZON TRIBE
Brazil's armed forces ejected hundreds of settlers from an indigenous reserve. A year later, outsiders are back... READ MORE›
BRAZILIANS PANIC AS MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUS IS LINKED TO BRAIN DAMAGE IN THOUSANDS OF BABIES
RECIFE, Brazil -- Jusikelly da Silva was full of expectations for her baby... READ MORE›
HOW BRAZIL, THE DARLING OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD, CAME UNDONE
Big parts of the Brazil model, it turns out, were glued together with kickbacks, dirty money and lies... READ MORE›
DAWN TIMBER-LAUNDERING RAIDS CAST DOUBT ON 'SUSTAINABLE' BRAZILIAN WOOD
Most of Brazil's timber exports are certified as sustainably logged, but according to police and prosecutors in Para state at least 80 percent is illegally felled... READ MORE›
BRAZIL COURT LIFTS SUSPENSION OF FACEBOOK'S WHATSAPP SERVICE
The trafficker allegedly used WhatsApp services while committing crimes... READ MORE›
BOOM THREATENS A THIRD OF THE WORLDS FRESHWATER FISH
If the dams are built, tropical freshwater biodiversity, which is at its most diverse in the three river basins, could be devastated, say the authors... READ MORE›
A LOOK INSIDE THE WORLD OF COFFEE
Sebastiao Salgado's newest book documents the traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming. He visited 10 different countries around the world... READ MORE›
ZIKA OUTBREAK RAISES FEARS OF RISE IN DEATHS FROM UNSAFE ABORTIONS
Campaigners urge governments in Latin America to rethink bans on abortion and make contraception widely available... READ MORE›