Tag: Amazon
AmazonDesforestation in Brazil doubles, in anticipation of an amnesty for illegal logging
Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon, the world’s biggest rain forest, more than doubled last month as farmers become more confident they’ll be granted amnesty for illegal logging.
Brazil gives definitive approval to world’s third largest hydroelectric dam project
Brazil's environment agency gave its definitive approval Wednesday for construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, a controversial 17 billion US dollars project in the Amazon that has drawn criticism from native Indians and conservationists.
Amazon tribe first contacted in 1986 has no abstract concept of time
Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say researchers. The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate time and space - as in our idea of, for example, “working through the night”.
Amazon drought consequences still affect an area 3.5 times the size of Texas
A new study has revealed widespread reductions in the greenness of Amazon forests caused by the last year's record-breaking drought.
Droughts could turn Amazon basin from greenhouse gas eater to source of gases
A long-lasting drought that affected the Amazon Rain Forest last year was worse than the once-in-a-lifetime drought that the region suffered in 2005, and a team of British and Brazilian scientists say it may have a bigger impact on global warming than the US does in a year.
Lula da Silva signs contract for controversial dam in the Amazon basin
Brazilian President Lula da Silva signed Thursday the contracts for the Norte Energia consortium to start construction of a controversial hydroelectric dam in the Amazon basin.
Brazilian Indians protesting construction of Amazon dam release hostages
The Brazilian Indians who occupied the construction site of a hydroelectric dam and took more than 150 workers hostage in the far southern portion of the country’s Amazon region on Monday have released the last five people they were holding, a government spokesman said.
Indians seize controversial dam under construction in Brazil’s Amazon jungle
A group of about 300 Indians from 11 different groups on Sunday seized a controversial dam that is under construction in Brazil’s Amazon jungle and took about 100 workers hostage, officials said.
Brazilian government awards bid to build controversial Amazon dam
The Brazilian government accepted bids Tuesday to build what would be the world’s third-largest hydroelectric dam in the Amazon. Officials proceeded with the auction immediately after a judge overturned another magistrate’s injunction blocking the tender and revoking the environmental permit for the 11,000 MW Belo Monte complex.
