Water flooded forests in Bolivia follows by tributaries to Brazil. Satellite images indicate that level will rise slowly until April
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Gallery: Porto Velho was with multiple flooded places
Photos taken last weekend shows that the situation in the city is still calamity. More than a thousand families are homeless.
Manaus: perfect horizon for birdwatching in the Amazon
Municipality has more than half of the bird species found in the Brazilian Amazon, but observers numbers are still small.
Authorities will be reported by responsibility on garbage dump
Dump site has more than 30 years and received between 30 and 34 tons of garbage daily.
El Día: The Noel Kempff Park in Bolivia under three threats
Livestock and agricultural activity in neighboring Brazil, illegal fishing and fires threaten the protected area.
Portal do Meio Ambiente: Hydroelectric dams underestimated hydrography and climate change
Reports and documents produced by Brazilian and Bolivian experts, warned of the impacts that both hydroelectric power would produce.
BBC: Unpublished map puts Brazil in 3rd place in environmental conflicts
Autonomous University of Barcelona mapped environmental conflicts around the world. Brazilian miner company Vale ranks fifth in the ranking of companies engaged in these issues.
Systems that combine livestock, farming and forest can reduce carbon emissions
Research of carbon in Amazonian soils reveals that integrated farming systems are able to absorb greenhouse gases better than traditional crops and pastures.
About the weather, economy, governance and collapse
Faced with the current climatic disorders, rampant consumption pattern and neglect of our authorities, expert stresses in blunt tone, a bleak future that we are doomed.
80 thousand hectares of Amazonian forests devastated by illegal mining
8 in 10 people dedicated to this activity recorded mercury levels in blood above the allowed limit, says the Council of Ministers of Peru.