If realized, the state agency would make viable investment of up to $ 3,000 million in hydrocarbon exploration.
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Mining, latent in the Amazon
Mineral extraction in this region is seen more and more like a development model, which many fear.
New study examines environmental impacts of oil palm in Pará
Despite gaining more and more fans, the palm culture may not represent the promising future dreamed of by farmers
Unpublished report highlights the costs of expansion of oil palm in northeastern of Pará
With funds from the National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture, planting of palm grows in Para. Benefits to farmers, however, are questionable.
Company signs contract for ‘sustainable exploitation’ in the Amazon
By the end of 2013, nearly 1.5 million hectares are in the bidding process and contracts for timber exploitation in the Amazon.
Indigenous asked to Brazilian government stop work on Amazon
A group of indigenous traveled to Brasilia to ask the government not to execute the construction of two hydroelectric plants in the jungle.
The Battle for the Amazon
The heart of the Amazon has its days numbered. Belo Monte dam, the third world’s largest will flood five hundred square kilometers of virgin forest.
Brazil’s GHG emissions fall 39% since 2005, now 10% below 1990 levels
Brazil’s greenhouse-gas emissions dropped, largely due to a reduction in deforestation, reports the Brazilian government.
3% of Amazon rainforest burned between 1999-2010
Satellite data shows that in some years, understory fires burn a far larger extent of forest than the area deforested for agriculture and cattle pasture.
Amazon fire risk on the rise, says NASA
The Amazon rainforest is facing a higher risk of fires this dry season, warns a fire prediction system developed by researchers using NASA and NOAA data.