Tag: INPE

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 19:13 UTC

  Brazilian warplanes dumpling water on the Amazon forest, but will it be enough?

  

  Brazilian warplanes are dumping water on the burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to a global outcry over the destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest, according to a government video.

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 17:56 UTC

  New fires raging in the Amazon; agriculture sector warns Bolsonaro: “nationalistic bravado will not win the game”

  

  Hundreds of new fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, official data showed, as thousands of troops were made available to help fight the worst blazes in years following a global outcry. Multiple fires billowing huge plumes of smoke into the air were seen across a vast area of the northwestern state of Rondonia.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Bolsonaro suggests green groups started the blaze in the Amazon to blame him

  

  Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have ignited a firestorm on social media, with President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday suggesting green groups started the blazes. Images of fires purportedly devouring sections of the world's largest rainforest have gone viral on Twitter.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Daytime smoke blackout in Sao Paulo blamed on Amazon rainforest fires

  

  Brazil's Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of fires this year, according to new data from the country's space research agency. The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) said its satellite data showed an 83% increase on the same period in 2018.

• Saturday, August 10th 2019 - 08:05 UTC

  Eat less, poop every other day, suggests Bolsonaro, if you want to save the world

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggested on Friday that people “poop every other day” as a way to save the environment after he came under fire for a surge in deforestation of the Amazon since he came to power.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 12:55 UTC

  No end in Brazil to controversy, while deforestation continues: 67% increase over the same period last year

  

  Deforestation in Brazil's rainforest has jumped around 67% in the first seven months of the year, according to preliminary data from Brazil's space research agency, which the government has attacked as misleading and harmful to the national interest.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 20:47 UTC

  Amazon deforestation: Bolsonaro ready to sack official who exposed him

  

  The head of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research said on Friday he was going to be sacked following a row with President Jair Bolsonaro over deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

• Monday, July 22nd 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro again criticizes the state agency monitoring the Amazon forest

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro again criticized a state agency that monitors the Amazon, saying on Sunday that its latest report on increased deforestation damages Brazil’s reputation amid what he says is an “environmental psychosis” overseas about environmental protection in South America’s biggest nation.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazil: Amazon rainforest deforestation advancing at its fastest rate during May

  

  Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil sped up in May to the fastest rate in a decade, according to data from an early-warning satellite system, as experts pointed to activity by illegal loggers encouraged by the easing of environmental protections under President Jair Bolsonaro.