Positive news from Brazil
Brazil says Amazon deforestation at record lowDeforestation of Brazil's Amazon has slowed for a fourth consecutive year to its lowest rate since authorities began monitoring the world's largest rainforest, officials said Tuesday.
"It is the lowest deforestation rate since Brazil began its monitoring in 1988"
- Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira |
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Brazil says Amazon deforestation at record lowDeforestation of Brazil's Amazon has slowed for a fourth consecutive year to its lowest rate since authorities began monitoring the world's largest rainforest, officials said Tuesday. |
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Brazil humpback population on the reboundLast year, nearly 11,500 humpback whales were counted off the coast of Brazil -- a new record, the Baleia Jubarte Institute cheered Sunday in a report. |
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Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your PlasticThe Amazon is home to more species than almost anywhere else on earth. One of them, carried home recently by a group from Yale University, appears to be quite happy eating plastic in airless landfills. |
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Saving the Amazon: Winning the war on deforestation
Source: BBC Magazine, Mon January 02, 2012 |
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New program to compensate poor for environmental protectionBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff has introduced a new program, Bolsa Verde (Green Allowance), to compensate the poor for environmental protection, reports Globo News. |
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Brazilian Wind Power Now Cheaper Than Natural GasWind power in Brazil now costs less than natural gas. Brazil’s National Electric Power Agency held a series of energy auctions last week. During the auctions, 78 wind power projects, out of 92 projects, nabbed contracts. |
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Global Organizations Announce $8.4 Mil Grant to Give South American Recyclers DignityThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Coca-Cola Company, Fundación Avina, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), launched a coalition that aims to improve the lives of the at least 4 million people who make a living off of recycling. |
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World’s largest beef company signs Amazon rainforest pactThe world's largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor's office in the state of Acre. |
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Moratorium on Amazon deforestation for soy production proving effectiveThe Brazilian soy industry's moratorium is proving effective at slowing deforestation for soy production in the Amazon rainforest, reveals a new study published in the journal Remote Sensing. |
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Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte damA Brazilian judge has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. |
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