je.st

Home › brazils

Tag: brazils

Deforestation appears to rise again in Brazil's Amazon

2013-01-24 19:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: After years of gains against destruction of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil appears to be suffering from an increase in deforestation as farmers, loggers, miners and builders move into previously untouched woodland, according to data compiled by the government and independent researchers. Imazon, a Brazilian research institute that tracks deforestation through satellite imagery, said in a recent report that destruction in the world's largest rainforest climbed for the fourth consecutive month in...

Tags: amazon appears rise deforestation

The human cost of Brazil's energy policy

2013-01-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Daily Climate: Jerky mobile phone footage shows men carrying the inert body of a young man, surrounded by distraught, weeping women. Their wailing is clearly audible, as are the shrieks of a pet monkey which scurries in and out of the crowd. At least 30 large dams are planned for the Amazon region. If they all go ahead, every one of the major rivers feeding the Amazon will be dammed. The body is finally laid at the feet of the young man's mother. She strokes away the hair over a bullet wound in his forehead,...

Tags: policy cost human energy