As the Farc demobilised, deforestation soared by 44 percent in 2016 with a rush of land-grabbing to plant coca and clear land for cattle ranches... READ MORE›
Together Brazil and Indonesia accounted for nearly a quarter of all forest loss last year... READ MORE›
Koenig, whose group works with indigenous peoples to protect the Amazon... READ MORE›
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›
Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon jumped by 29 percent to 8,000 sq km in 2016, although it remains well below the 19,000 sq km seen in 2005... READ MORE›
According to the United Nations, the production of palm oil, soy, beef and wood products contributed to a little less than half of total tropical deforestation... READ MORE›
For the first time in history, carbon dioxide absorption by the Amazon rainforest has been surpassed by fossil fuel emissions in Latin America, the study found... READ MORE›
The rainforests hold the key to taming el ni o's destruction... READ MORE›
Mail online uk petrobras scandal takes brazilian politicians to supreme court 13 hrs ago... READ MORE›
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›
Oil and gas access roads in western Amazon could open up Pandoras box of environmental impacts... READ MORE›
Rosolie has faced criticism from animal rights campaigners over the snake's welfare but he insisted that it is alive and well ... READ MORE›
But what happens in the coming weeks in Brazil has longer-term implications for elected socialist governments throughout Latin America... READ MORE›
There has been a sharp rise in the number of cases of Zika in several other Latin American countries... READ MORE›
Brazil's economy tanks as multibillion-dollar corruption scandal expands Eduardo Cunha, speaker of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, approved the launching of the impeachment proceedings... READ MORE›
Ontario has confirmed its first case of the Zika virus, provincial health officials say... READ MORE›
Guimaraes is better qualified than most Brazilians to make such comparisons, having been involved in every Olympics since 1980... READ MORE›
Brazil's armed forces ejected hundreds of settlers from an indigenous reserve. A year later, outsiders are back... READ MORE›
If the impeachment measure is approved, it would require only a simple majority to clear Brazil's Senate, where Rousseff's chances for survival are even slimmer... READ MORE›
RECIFE, Brazil -- Jusikelly da Silva was full of expectations for her baby... READ MORE›
Big parts of the Brazil model, it turns out, were glued together with kickbacks, dirty money and lies... READ MORE›
For more than a decade, and especially after the Sept. 11 attacks, Brazilian intelligence officials have been monitoring individuals suspected of links to terrorism... READ MORE›
The 10 happiest countries in the world are all in South America for the first time in Gallup's 10-year history assessing the world's happiness... READ MORE›
IBAMA, on the other hand, has under 2,000 agents tasked with monitoring the entire Brazilian Amazon, estimated at about 3.3 million square kilometers 1.3 million square miles ... READ MORE›
Demonstrators protesting the impeachment process threatening Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff occupied dozens of highways in major cities during rush hour Thursday morning, causing long backups... READ MORE›
Brazil's government says it will deploy 220,000 soldiers in its fight against mosquitoes spreading the Zika virus... READ MORE›
Global Witness cited the case of Filipino activist Michelle Campos, a member of the indigenous Lumad people from the southern Philippines... READ MORE›
Impeachment will be looked back on as a bad moment for Brazil, former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso told the Guardian... READ MORE›
By 1958, the Pan-American Health Organization declared the Aedes aegypti vanquished in Brazil, and in the years that followed, in much of the continent... READ MORE›
A village of indigenous Yanomami is seen during Brazil's environmental agency operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land in Roraima state on April 18, 2016... READ MORE›
Amazon rainforest was home to millions of people before European arrival, says study... READ MORE›
But Collor's impeachment, on corruption grounds, was widely supported, and Brazil is split over Rousseff's fate... READ MORE›
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