Tag: Amazon rainforest

• Wednesday, February 17th 2021 - 08:48 UTC

  Majority of Europeans favor protection of Brazilian Amazon, before EU ratifies Mercosur trade deal

  

  A new poll shows that the grand majority of Europe’s people favors implementing effective protections of the Brazilian Amazon, ending deforestation there, before the EU agrees to ratify the free trade agreement with Mercosur (composed of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay).

• Thursday, January 14th 2021 - 09:58 UTC

  Global deforestation gobbles an area bigger than Germany in a decade, WWF

  

  More than 43 million hectares of forest - an area bigger than Germany - have been lost in a little over a decade in just a handful of deforestation hot spots, conservation organization WWF said on Wednesday.

• Monday, January 11th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Japan detects a new coronavirus variant in travelers from Brazil's Amazon

  

  A new coronavirus variant has been detected in four travelers from Brazil's Amazonas state, Japan's Health Ministry said on Sunday the latest new mutation of the virus discovered.

• Wednesday, December 16th 2020 - 09:08 UTC

  Food companies and grocers urge commodity suppliers to refuse soybeans from deforested areas in Brazil

  

  Some of the world’s largest food companies and grocers urged commodity suppliers including Archer-Daniels-Midland Co, Bunge Ltd, Cargill Inc and Louis Dreyfus Co. to stop trading soybeans associated with deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region, a savanna that is a hive of biodiversity and one of the country’s most important carbon sinks.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2020 - 09:41 UTC

  Curbing Amazon deforestation conditions EU/Mercosur trade deal

  

  Until Brazil makes a political commitment to curb deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, the trade deal between the European Union and South America’s Mercosur trade bloc will not advance toward ratification in Europe, the EU’s envoy in Brasilia said.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  An eight mile wall of prehistoric art discovered in the Colombian Amazon

  

  Prehistoric rock art discovered in Colombia is being hailed as the “Sistine Chapel of the ancients”. The eight-mile wall of art was created by the first humans of the Amazon some 12,500 years ago and now a wildlife filmmaker is sharing images and videos of the monumental artwork in a new documentary.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 09:27 UTC

  Brazil's carbon emissions on the rise, claim coalition of environmental organizations

  

  Brazil's carbon emissions surged last year because of rising deforestation in the Amazon, jeopardizing the country's commitments under the Paris climate accord, an environmental group warned on Friday.

• Thursday, November 5th 2020 - 09:46 UTC

  Bolsonaro refrains from commenting on the potential winner of US election

  

  Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday refrained from commenting on the potential winner of the tight U.S. election, but reiterated his support for President Donald Trump, and suggested Democratic challenger Joe Biden would interfere on issues like the Amazon rainforest if elected.

• Thursday, October 29th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Major US funds involved in Amazon degradation and indigenous rights violations, claim environmental groups

  

  Major US financial firms are helping fund environmental destruction and indigenous rights abuses in the Amazon with billions of dollars in investments in questionable companies, according to a report published on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Brazil extends to May 2022 military deployment to protect the Amazon rainforest

  

  Brazil’s conservative government will extend the military’s deployment to fight the destruction of the Amazon rainforest by five months through April 2021 from its previous November end date, Vice President Hamilton Mourao said on Monday.