Tag: Brazil - Page 7
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Overwhelming Majority of Brazilians Want Strong Forest Protections
As battles both political and literal over deforestation in Brazil continue, with six activists killed in the past month, WWF has some hopeful stats about how Brazilians
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Amazon Anti-Logging Activist Murdered, Fifth Time this Happens in the Past Month...
Photo: Wikipedia, Public domain. The Stakes Couldn't Be Higher Obede Loyla Souza was shot dead, and the most likely cause of his violent killing was a conflict between activists and companies over land and logging in Brazil's rainforest region. This is
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Belo Monte Dam is Brazil's Shame, Undermines Nation
A good editorial on Brazil's Belo Monte dam over this past weekend by Rhett Butler from Mongabay. Hits what many people no doubt feel, that Brazil has made some great environmental progress in some areas, but the approval of this project very nearly
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Two Environmentalists 'Executed' in the Brazilian Amazon
According to reports from Brazilian media, two environmentalists known for their outspoken opposition to deforestation in the Amazon have been killed in a manner investigators are describing as an execution. José Cláudio
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Deforestation in Critical Part of Amazon Doubled Last Year
An update on what we reported back in February, that deforestation in critical parts of the Amazon is shooting up again. Satellite data from Imazon shoes that deforestation in Mato Grosso doubled during August
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Urban Golfers Find a Fun Way to Protest Potholes (Video)
Potholes are ugly, irksome, and often dangerous, but sometimes it seems that no amount complaining ever really helps to get them filled. So, with that in mind, a group of forward thinking Brazilians have decided to make
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Help Gisele Bündchen and Don Cheadle Plant a Forest with UNEP
Tonight at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Gisele Bündchen and Don Cheadle will co-host the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Champions of the Earth 2011 Awards, during which they will announce the launch of the
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World's Biggest Beef Company Agrees to Not Buy Deforestation Beef, Use Slave Labor
Report after report has illustrated the direct connection between beef cattle ranching and deforestation in Brazil, and now there's some progress on reigning in the tree-felling. As Mongabay reports the world's largest beef company, JBS-Friboi, has
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Sugarcane Can Cool the Earth in More Ways Than One
In Brazil, products made from sugarcane are ubiquitous. From the nation's favorite liquor, cachaça, to the clean-burning biofuels that power cars and buses, sugarcane has proven to be a particularly diverse natural
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Amazon Fishermen See Dolphins as Rivals & Kill Them for Bait
It's a horrible example of killing two birds with one stone: in Igarapé do Costa, a fishing town in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen, tired of seeing their catches decimated by feeding pink
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Tortoise Loses Leg, Learns to Walk With a Wheel
Tortoises are among the oldest species on the planet, remaining virtually unchanged for millions of years -- but sometimes they too need a replacement part every now and then. When a severely injured red-footed tortoise was
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Brazilian Beef's Carbon Footprint Wildly High Thanks To Deforestation
This should come as no great surprise to anyone who's been around the environmental block a couple times, but the new stats on the carbon footprint of beef from Brazil are pretty stunning: A new study being highlighted by Mongabay shows that because of
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Recycling Gone Right: Amazing Kitchen With Random Salvaged Materials By WhyDesign (Photos)
Asked to come up with a concept space for the BGourmet event in Sao Paulo, Brazilian studio WhyDesign came up with this fabulous kitchen made almost entirely with salvaged materials from flea markets and demolition
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Driver Who Hit Cyclists Indicted for Attempted Murder
As Ricardo Neis, a bank official from Porto Alegre, Brazil, was driving with his teenage son early last Friday evening, he found himself having to share the street at the pace of a group of cyclists -- everyday folks of
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Construction of Belo Monte Dam Blocked by Judge
After decades of protests against what would be the world's third largest hydroelectric facility, Brazilian officials finally approved construction on the controversial dam at Belo Monte just one month ago -- but hope is
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Driver Plows Through Dozens of Cyclists in Brazil (Video)
On the last Friday of every month, hundreds of bike riding enthusiasts take to the streets for Critical Mass in Porto Alegre, Brazil to raise awareness of cycling in a city dominated by motor vehicles -- but at their most recent event,
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Global Investments In Clean Energy to Hit $240 Billion in 2011
Who's missing from the lede of this Reuters story? It begins: "Brazil, China and India are expected to fuel global investments in clean energy in 2011 that are expected to reach $240 billion, the head of a United
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Amazon Deforestation Up 1000% From Last Year
Over the last several years, the rate of forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon had been in steady decline, but the latest data is yet again proving that the problem is far from over. According to figures released today, deforestation in
