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Brazil’s Supreme Court upheld a law removing 862 hectares (2,130 acres) from Jamanxim National Park, clearing a legal obstacle for the proposed Ferrogrão grain railway.
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A Copa do Mundo não é bem-vinda no país de Trump
Quando um país não está disposto a receber o mundo, pode até colocar os gramados à disposição, mas não vai conseguir sediar uma Copa de verdade.
Texto de hoje no Meia Encarnada
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A new report warns that oil, gas, and illegal mining threaten isolated Indigenous peoples in the Peru-Brazil Yavarí-Tapiche corridor. Industrial concessions overlap with 10% of the 16 million-hectare area, risking forced contact, habitat loss, and disease.
@aimeegabay.bsky.social reports.
Brazil’s environmental agency approved oil drilling off the mouth of the Amazon River, even though oil company Petrobras considers it “unfeasible” to rescue large animals like manatees in the event of an oil spill.
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A two-decade study conducted in the southeastern Brazilian Amazon found that while degraded forests show high ecological resilience and no sign of transitioning to savanna, species diversity at forest edges halved.
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Golaço.
The measure impacts IBAMA’s raids and risks reversing the system that halved Amazon deforestation under the Lula administration.
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Intensive farming of the popular açaí berry grew by 70% since 2015, while community cooperatives reported losses of 35% or more during recent heat waves and fires.
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The government of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has launched renewal works for the BR-319 highway, using a new legal loophole to bypass environmental licensing requirements.
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Brazil's Supreme Court ruling revives a controversial Amazon railway and sets a precedent about protected areas.
Revistas humilhantes, detenções arbitrárias e constrangimento aos visitantes contrariam o espírito do torneio antes mesmo do primeiro jogo
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Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI) in the Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor, one of the largest contiguous, intact forests in the Amazon and home to the world’s…
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A rare hybrid population faces an oil frontier with a rescue plan that experts call insufficient.
🚨 EXCLUSIVO: o Intercept Brasil obteve mensagens, documentos e áudios que revelam como Flávio Bolsonaro negociou diretamente com o banqueiro Daniel Vorcaro um pagamento milionário para financiar “Dark Horse”, filme sobre Jair Bolsonaro.
A federal court and Brazil’s environmental agency ordered the Belo Monte hydropower plant to revise the Xingu River’s water-sharing plan, a decade after its debut, but a legal stay blocks enforcement of the ruling.
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Locals warned Belo Monte would kill the river, and now the plant faces a turning point as prophecies become real.
