Brazilian Amazon

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Researchers have discovered a new sub-species of monkey in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest, a U.S.-based wildlife conservation group said on Tuesday.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 — the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday. Deforestation - Brazil - Environment - School Time - Kids and Teens

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon was down 45 percent between August 2008 and July 2009 relative to the previous 12-month period, the government said.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 _ the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday. Analysis of satellite imagery by the National Institute for Space Research shows an...

Without a strict monitoring and labeling system, a moratorium on beef products from the Brazilian Amazon could amount to little more than a publicity stunt, environmentalists warn.

Filed under: Activism, Learning, Stories, South America, Brazil, Ecotourism, NewsHooray! Brazil has supposedly implemented a plan that will cut……I do hope I'm proven wrong. In ten years, I would still like to see the Brazilian Amazon -- not a Brazilian soybean field in its place. …

RIO DE JANEIRO: A private airplane with 26 people aboard crashed late Saturday into a river in Brazil, leaving six people dead, four survivors and the rest missing, a local fire department spokesman told AFP.

"Iris-beetles are a highly varied genera despite their isolated range, being only found in a small area in the Brazilian Amazon. Not true beetles, these arthropods have large, segmented bodies and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chopping down forests in the Brazilian Amazon produces a boom-and-bust economy that draws poor people to newly-cleared land but ultimately leaves them no better off, researchers reported on Thursday.

In 1927, Henry Ford purchased a tract of land in the Brazilian Amazon roughly the size of Connecticut, with the intention of growing rubber for his automobile factories. During the next eighteen years, Ford invested a quarter of a billion dollars (in today’s money), but Fordlandia, as the place…

A city official in the remote Brazilian Amazon village of Envira told CNN that five members of the Kulina tribe are on the run after being accused of murdering, butchering and eating a farmer in a ritual act of cannibalism.

Jump to the full entry & travel map Santarem, State of Para, BrazilFeels like I've been in a time warp for the last 36……the impact on the forest was disastrous. Most of the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon happens here!!Stopped off for breaks at a few…

One of Scharffen Berger’s new projects is the Chocolate Makers Series with limited runs (about 120 cases) of single origin beans. There are two……any roads. From the package Notes: A single origin from deep within the Brazilian Amazon - unlike any cacao we’ve ever tasted. Profile:…

Veteran conservationist David Cleary knows what's critical for protecting the Amazon:……deforestation in the Amazon is ranching, with pasture having replaced more than 80 percent of the Brazilian Amazon cleared since reliable satellite records began, in the early 1980s."As…

Army soldiers used boats, trucks and helicopters to tote food and water to scores of cities and towns isolated by floods that have killed at least……destroyed, said Sebastiao Haji Manchiner, executive secretary of the Brazilian Amazon Indigenous Organization. In the hardest-hit state of…