SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government announced Friday that a U.N. Latin America regional group has endorsed a Brazilian city in the Amazon region to host the 2025 U.N. climate change conference, though the world body has not yet publicly confirmed the venue.
In the Amazon, Brazilian ecologists try new approach against deforestation and poverty
May 22, 2023 GMTCARAUARI, Brazil (AP) — In a remote corner of the Amazon, Brazilian ecologists are trying to succeed where a lack of governance has proved disastrous. They're managing a stretch of land in a way that welcomes both local people and scientists to engage in preserving the world’s largest tropical forest.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s environmental regulator refused on Wednesday to grant a license for a controversial offshore oil drilling project near the mouth of the Amazon River, prompting celebration from environmentalists who had warned of its potential impact.
Brazil recognizes 6 Indigenous areas in boost for Amazon
April 28, 2023 GMTBRASÍLIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday granted official recognition of nearly 800 square miles of Indigenous lands, most of it in the Amazon, in a move that seeks to safeguard critical rainforest from the unchecked exploitation that marked his predecessor's administration.
Brazil authorities probe Amazon ties to capital attacks
February 1, 2023 GMTSAO PAULO (AP) — On the edge of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the Rovaris family is a symbol of a pioneering success story.
The family arrived in the state of Mato Grosso in the 1970s as part of a wave of agricultural expansion promoted by the country’s then-military dictatorship.
Immersed in crisis, Peru neglects Amazon’s destruction
June 3, 2022 GMTRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Peru has descended into one of the worst political crises in its history and protection of its Amazon rainforest is failing, according to a report published Thursday. Peru is home to the second-largest portion of the Amazon rainforest after Brazil.
In Brazil’s Amazon, rivers rise to record levels
June 1, 2021 GMTMANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Rivers around the biggest city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have swelled to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping, according to data published Tuesday by Manaus' port authorities, straining a society that has grown weary of increasingly frequent flooding.
Conservationists: Bisons revive, freshwater dolphins dwindle
December 10, 2020 GMTGENEVA (AP) — A leading conservation group uniting governments and civil society says all four known freshwater dolphin species are now threatened with extinction, after newly discovered information on the tucuxi in the Amazon river system showed it too is endangered.
Colombian siblings launch market for Amazon farmers in need
July 9, 2020 GMTThe luscious fruits of the Amazon jungle still grow, undeterred by the raging pandemic.
But many Colombian farmers and Indigenous communities have been left without a way to sell their harvests, and without the wherewithal to buy the staples of daily life...
In the Amazon, indigenous debate how to save their lands
September 7, 2019 GMTTEKOHAW, Brazil (AP) — Under a thatch-roof shelter in the Amazon rainforest, warriors wielding bows and arrows, elderly chieftains in face paint and nursing mothers gathered to debate a plan that some hope will hold at bay the loggers and other invaders threatening the tribes of the Tembe...
Going Out: Get a taste of Wisconsin farm life on campus
April 27, 2018 GMTTreat yourself and the family to a delicious, locally-sourced Breakfast on the Farm with the UW-Madison Association of Women in Agriculture 8 a.m. to noon Sunday at UW-Madison Stock Pavilion, 1675 Linden Drive.
Episode 33: The Amazon: How to plan a trip, plus the “selfie tourism” wildlife controversy
December 20, 2017 GMTVisiting the Amazon is a magical experience. The sounds and sights are stunning: pink dolphins, insects buzzing, birds screeching, creatures slithering...
California family missing in Brazilian jungle found safe
November 2, 2017 GMTSAO PAULO (AP) — A California couple and their two daughters who had been missing since Sunday when pirates attacked their boat in the Amazon River delta area have been found alive.
Except for insect bites and scratches, Adam and Emily Harteau and their 3- and 7-year-old daughters were in good condition and will spend the night in a hospital in the small city of Breves, not far from where they were found, law enforcement officials in Brazil's northern jungle state of Para said Wednesday.