Mercury is burned to extract the pure gold from metal and produces dangerous vapors.
Monthly Archives: June 2013
The use of mercury in mining is in discussion to be banned
A project that seeks to ban the use of mercury in all cases is about to become law of the Republic.
Oil spills in the Amazon basin leave Brazilian government on alert
One of the spills occurred on the Negro river, near Manaus, and another in Napo river in the Ecuadorian jungle; IBAMA proposes an ’emergency coordination’
The best of the Amazon in photographic exhibition
The aim of the presentation is to highlight the importance of the Amazon of the four CAN Member Countries.
14 dams are projected in the Inambari basin
The Amazon Puno department constitutes one of the favorable scenarios for the energy industry.
Brazilian Forest Code completes 1st year with little progress
The Rural Environmental Registry is one of the pillars of the new code, being a record for the authorities to monitor the green areas of rural properties.
Disorderly occupation of spaces grows outbreaks of malaria
The great works undertaken in the Amazon without any planning and respect for nature are behind the high rates of malaria in the region.
Amazon river digests trees dragged
Research shows that the rivers of the Amazon basin have bacterias capable of digesting stems and trunks of trees and turn them into CO².
Bolivia: Government will explore oil and gas in protected areas
Madidi and Tipnis parks in the Bolivian Amazon could be exploited. Meanwhile, studies are stopped due to lack of environmental license.
75% of properties have environmental pending issues in the 1st year of the Forest Code
According to WWF-Brazil, seven in ten rural lands in Brazil have some kind of pending environmental.