Lula gathers ministers and announces firefighting measures
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party) met with the heads of the three branches of government and Supreme ...
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Unallocated public lands are the most affected by fires in the Amazon rainforest from January to August
Fire consumed 849,521 hectares of undesignated public land in the Amazon rainforest from January to August 2024. This represents a ...
‘The Amazon rainforest entered the dry season already with a water deficit due to the 2023 drought,’ says expert
“The drought is killing the coffee plantations,” laments family farmer Gersi de Souza, a resident of Acrelândia in Acre state, ...
Brazil’s government send firefighters to combat wildfires on the border with Bolivia
The Brazilian government has sent a group from the National Public Security Force (FNSP, in Portuguese) to curb wildfires affecting ...
From the Amazon to Southern Brazil: find out about the climate crisis hitting the country
While Maurício da Silva, a resident of the São Sebastião community in the city of Porto Velho, northern Brazil, is ...
Rural areas, forests and cities: youths from the Amazon rainforest organize in a network to demand public policies
According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE, in Portuguese), northern Brazil is the youngest region of the ...
‘If the fires intensify, we’ll have a period of very unhealthy air,’ says an environmentalist about wildfires
The record wildfire season in the Amazon is forming a corridor of smoke that has already reached at least ten ...
Amazon deforestation drops by 46%, but Congress is a threat, says the Climate Observatory
In the last 12 months, the Lícito Amazon recorded the smallest deforested area since 2016, according to data of the ...
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