Tag: Amazon rainforest

• Saturday, December 8th 2018 - 09:30 UTC

  Brazil environment regulator denies license to drill near mouth of the Amazon

  

  Brazil's environmental regulator on Friday denied French oil giant Total a license to drill for crude in five blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river. Regulatory agency Ibama said the license was denied “due to a set of technical problems” identified during the application process.

• Saturday, November 24th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest reaches highest level in a decade

  

  The destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached its highest level in a decade this year, government data released on Friday showed, driven by illegal logging and the encroachment of agriculture in the jungle.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2015 - 05:52 UTC

  Obama and Rousseff agree their nations are 'natural partners' and working on an 'upward trajectory'

  

  President Barack Obama and visiting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff sought Tuesday to cast their nations as “natural partners” collaborating closely on critical issues like climate and regional diplomacy, glossing over recent tensions over spying that have strained relations between the first and seventh world economies.

• Friday, August 16th 2013 - 17:46 UTC

  Ecuador ‘forced’ to drill for oil in pristine Amazon rainforest; ‘rich countries have failed us’

  

  Ecuador has abandoned a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to drill for oil in previously untouched parts of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest. President Rafael Correa said rich nations had failed to back the initiative, leaving Ecuador with no choice but go ahead with drilling.