Brazil Scrambles to Save Its Disappearing Savanna
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Brazil launched an emergency plan on Friday to save what remains of its vast tropical savanna, much of which has been cleared for farming in recent decades.
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Elections in Brazil used to be a monumental challenge, with millions of paper ballots to count by hand, many of them delivered by canoe and horseback from remote Amazon villages. Fraud was widespread, and it often took a week or more to determine the winners.
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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
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SANGRADOURO INDIAN RESERVE, Brazil -- When the sun sinks behind the palm and mango trees, candlelight flickers throughout a tiny village of thatched huts where about 100 Xavante Indians live.
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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.
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Rubber tappers,  fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined  environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion  hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main  tributaries.
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URUCU, Brazil  - A tower of orange flame rises  above the Amazon jungle, firing the energy goals of the  Brazilian government.
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HELSINKI, Nov 5 (IPS) - In Brazil rubber tappers living in the Amazon  forest are locked in deadly conflicts with timber loggers and big  agribusiness companies, with up to ten activists killed every  year, NGOs working in the country say.
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A symbol of abundance to the rest of the world, the Amazon is experiencing a crisis of overfishing.
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A wild grass found in Asia and Africa could hold the key to dreams of providing an alternative to fossil fuels blamed for global warming, experts said.
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PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK, South Africa -- Ecologist Rudi van Aarde leaned back on a veranda that overlooked dry grasslands and a group of bull elephants, his shoes still dusty from an 8,000-mile tour of game reserves in southern Africa. Van Aarde was on a mission: saving elephants from sanctioned killings.
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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new status to protect them from unsustainable logging.
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Brazil made progress in its ambitious plan to hand out land to poor peasants in 2004, but still fell short of goals aimed at narrowing chronic wealth inequality, government data released on Wednesday show.
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FOZ DO IGUACU, Brazil -- Geraldo Pereira has heard the rumors before, the whispers that cast a shadow on the reputation of this border town. So a bit of exasperation tinges his tone when the questions surface again.
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The rate of deforestation of the Amazon has reached a record high, the Brazilian government says.
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The African nation's last rain forests are in danger from both agricultural developers and locals who believe its plants hold pharmacological secrets
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The rate of Amazon deforestation rose sharply during the last five months of 2007 as land was cleared for soy and cattle, prompting a top-level emergency meeting Thursday by Brazilian officials to deal with the problem.