Brazilian-Dutch Project Wins Trade Award
The Dutch dredging company Van Oord has won a trade award for completing a unique offshore project in the Amazon.
May 31, 2011Topic
Amazon
Killing of Amazon Activists Sparks Protection
Amazonian environmentalists who receive death threats will be protected by the government, prompted by the recent spate of assassinations of...
May 31, 2011
The Amazon, Oil and Olympics and a New Issue
Editorial RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – This week the news is full of the usual suspects, not any less important,...
May 31, 2011
Amazon Deforestation Increases Alarming
In the nine month period from August of 2010 to April of 2011, deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest had...
May 24, 2011
The Soy Situation
Editorial RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – About 13 million hectares (32 million acres) of tropical forests are disappearing each year,...
May 24, 2011
Oxi: New Drug Terrifies Brazil
By Patricia Maresch, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – It looks like crack, but it is much cheaper,...
April 26, 2011
Belo Monte Dam Moves Forward
By Patricia Maresch, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil's Foreign Ministry rejected a request from the Organization...
April 12, 2011
Amazonas’ World Sustainability Forum
By Sibel Tinar, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The World Forum on Sustainability will be back in...
March 1, 2011US Focus on Brazilian Amazon
By Nestor Bailly, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - It is clear the Amazon rainforest is extremely important for...
December 21, 2010