Brazil launches anti-deforestation plan
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Brazil announced Friday it will create a landholder registry and send 700 more federal police to the Amazon River basin in a new effort to monitor and prevent deforestation in the environmentally sensitive region.
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Brazil's president said Monday that his nation's booming ethanol business won't hurt the Amazon rain forest, dismissing criticism that increased production of the alternate fuel could lead to deforestation.
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The rate of deforestation of the Amazon surged in the last five months of 2007,  the Brazilian government says.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - With his leftist credentials   and background as a factory worker in polluted Sao Paulo,   environmentalists had high hopes of Brazilian President Luiz   Inacio Lula da Silva when he took office in 2003.
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Brazil gives an initial green light to the construction of two hydro-electric dams on the Amazon River.
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Brazil's president approved a controversial executive order allowing farmers to plant genetically modified soybeans, just as the planting season in the world's second-largest soy producer goes into high gear.
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BRASILIA -- Burning of the Amazon and other forests accounts for three quarters of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions and has made the country one of the leading polluters in the world, a long-delayed government report said yesterday.
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President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil declares three days of national mourning after a plane crash is the Amazon rainforest.
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BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000  troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb death  squads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leader  and two workers in land battles in the last four days.
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Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically last year, officials said Thursday.
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A scheme to offer nations an economic incentive to protect tropical forests is vital in the battle against climate change.
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The presidents of Brazil and France have called for new efforts to fight poverty and hunger in the developing world, including the controversial creation of an international tax, to combat the negative effects ...
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Brazil has offered to build a $23 million pharmaceutical plant in Mozambique that will provide drugs to treat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, Mozambique's national newspaper said on Tuesday.
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Brazilian police seize a big load of illegally logged lumber as officials start new  moves to tackle Amazon deforestation.
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Latin America's largest country will start building 15 new hydroelectric power plants this year, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday.
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Brazil says it will investigate claims that loggers are exploiting its policy of settling the poor in the Amazon.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection yesterday in a region known for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers, and environmentalists.