Yellen launches Amazon basin effort to disrupt nature crimes
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July 27, 2024The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Brazil's public banks will announce on Thursday the development of an exchange-traded fund (ETF) focused on
July 24, 2024A Brazilian judge on Thursday issued an injunction to stop the paving of a highway through the center of the Amazon rainforest, amid fears the roadway would boost
July 25, 2024In an unusual series of legal actions, Brazilian prosecutors have sued multinational meatpacker JBS and three smaller slaughterhouses for allegedly buying cattle directly from illegal ranches in a protected area
December 19, 2023Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers about 2,000 years ago
January 11, 2024Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of the severe drought in the Amazon last year that sent rivers to record lows, isolated hundreds of river communities and killed dozens of endangered dolphins
January 24, 2024The Brazilian and the French presidents announced on Tuesday a plan to invest 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) on the Amazon, including its part in neighboring French Guiana
March 27, 2024Government measures to destroy illegal roads in and around Colombia's Amazon rainforest are stalled, eight sources told Reuters, with one operation suspended
June 12, 2024Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday urged his government to speed up actions in the Amazon to combat organized crime that has contributed to destruction of the
June 29, 2024Deforestation in Colombia fell 36% in 2023, the government said
July 08, 2024Brazil’s Forest Service has announced a plan to bring a massive area of Amazon rainforest currently vulnerable to illegal deforestation under national governance Tuesday
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