Brazil Says Amazon Destruction Declining
445499
By MICHAEL ASTOR  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The rate of destruction of the Amazon rain forest is slowing, although ranchers, loggers and soybean farmers are illegally removing thousands of square miles of trees each year, the Brazilian government said Tuesday.
386253
Irate Brazilian legislators told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday to tone down his criticism of their Congress or he would endanger Venezuela's entry into the South American trade bloc Mercosur.
509080
Unemployment in Brazil fell to 10.9 percent in September, the lowest rate so far this year, the government's statistics institute said Friday.
640499
Science & environment: Space imaging gives the lie to Brazil's recent 'great achievement' of halting rainforest destruction
220715
Brazil on Thursday rejected reports that it isn't giving United Nations inspectors full access to its uranium enrichment facilities because it wants to hide technology purchased on the nuclear black market.
357611
BRAS&#xED;LIA, Brazil -- Military helicopters lowered a rescue team by rope yesterday into the remote Amazon jungle site where an airliner slammed into the ground, but authorities held out little hope of finding survivors among the 155 people on board.
414091
By Andrew Hay BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil made progress in itsambitious plan to hand out land to poor peasants in 2004, butstill fell short of goals aimed at narrowing chronic wealthinequality, government data released on Wednesday show.
742125
Rescue workers on Sunday hunted through the wreckage of a Brazilian jetliner that crashed in the Amazon rain forest, likely killing all 155 people on board in what would be Brazil's worst air disaster.
535455
The burning and deforestation of Brazilâs vast Amazon rain forest causes nearly 3% of the worldâs greenhouse gas emissions, according to a government report released yesterday.
443088
A reported jump in the rate of Amazon deforestation is unproven despite a government crackdown on tree cutting, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in comments published Thursday.
481819
Around 12 percent of Brazil's Amazon charcoal works still uses slave labor despite a major crackdown since 2004, the regional industry watchdog, Citizens' Coal Institute (ICC), said.
767227
Brazil and Peru have announced a Â£363m plan for a highway to link Brazil&#39;s Amazon basin to the Pacific, raising concerns about further devastation in the rainforest.
212955
Brazil's government has played down claims that it is about to step in to save flagship airline Varig as it battles huge debts.
460558
By Axel Bugge BRASILIA, Brazil  - Burning of the Amazon andother forests accounts for three quarters of Brazil'sgreenhouse gas emissions and has made the country one of theworld's leading polluters, a long-delayed government reportshowed on Wednesday.
115773
ANAPU, Brazil  - Thousands of Amazon peasants  flocked to the funeral of a U.S. nun on Tuesday and vented  anger that the Brazil's government has only acted to stem  rising violence in the rain forest after the murder of the  renowned foreign activist.
403305
Nearly half a million Brazilians were murdered in the past decade but the homicide rate is gradually falling due to better social welfare, more policing and fewer firearms, a study said on Tuesday.
746475
Burning of the Amazon and other forests accounts for three quarters of Brazil&#39;s greenhouse gas emissions and has made the country one of the world&#39;s leading polluters