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Monthly Archives: February 2014
Deforestation increases in January, but maintain annual downward trend
According to data from Imazon, deforestation increased 206% over the same period last year, but the accumulated in year has 60% drop.
Tengri News: Sino-Brazilian consortium will build Belo Monte transmission lines
A group led by China’s State Grip Corp. friday won rights to build power lines to the huge Belo Monte dam in Brazil’s Amazon.
Rondônia ao Vivo: Jirau power plant calls emptying the reservoir of Santo Antônio dam
San Antonio would be operating with a reservoir that last week, would have exceeded the maximum height of 74.8 meters.
Confidencial: Threatened by infrastructure, dams and mining projects, Amazon is languishing
Dilma Rousseff announced a series of super-projects to “develop” the Amazon, making it a real exporting centre, especially to China.
La Hora: With climate change, the Amazon will no longer cool the atmosphere
The rainforest will become a source of carbon dioxide if climate change continues and extremes in precipitation, according to a study published in the British journal Nature.
Nature: Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure during the dry season
The seasonality of sunlight and rainfall regulates net primary production in tropical forests. Previous studies have suggested that light is more limiting than water for tropical forest productivity.
IPS Noticias: Piquiá de Baixo, steel hell on Amazon
The charcoal powder remaining from pig iron production, an intermediate material in the production of steel, has made Piquiá de Baixo village, on the eastern border of the Brazilian Amazon, a tragic case of industrial pollution.
Caracol: Former members of the FARC would work in recovery of the Amazon
Colombian government has over $ 100 million to start the project which seeks to combine environment and post-conflict.
Climate change: rain inundates forests in Bolivia
Among the areas affected by the floods in the country there are zones that are cut by rivers in the middle of the Amazon. Due to the floods, 44 dead.