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Temer attempts to explain he will not destroy the Amazon
Environmentalists urge Brazilian president to maintain authority over mineral exploration
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Caption: López Baltodano released a book about Nicaragua Canal (image credit: Jorge Mejia, Cortesia Popol Na)
Nicaragua Canal becomes government’s ‘Achilles heel’
Campaign against canal has sparked a human rights awakening, giving the government a dilemma
Caption: Authorities in Brazil are vaccinating against yellow fever (image: wikimedia
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Yellow fever outbreak spreads
Health experts fear common mosquito will spread disease but say climate link may be overstated
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Deforestation sparks yellow fever outbreak in Brazil
WHO warns outbreak of disease linked to forest loss in Brazil could spread to other countries
Caption: Guy Edwards from Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab speaking at the Wilson Center, Washington DC (image: Wilson Center).
Powerful ‘dirty’ ministries are hurting Latin America’s climate aims
Courting Chinese investment to develop high-carbon sectors has big long-term costs, experts say
Caption: Decorating trash carts is a way of drawing attention to the vital work of informal waste pickers (image: Pimp my carroça).
Pimp my… trash cart?
Brazilian graffiti artists’ support for invisible recyclers can become a global movement
Caption: Reforested area in Miyun, China (image: 老信天翁).
China and Brazil in forest restoration partnership
Forests an efficient means of capturing carbon but need national recognition, experts say
Caption: Bamboo covers approximately 1.5 million hectares of bamboo in Peru (image: Àlex
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China to promote Peruvian bamboo cultivation in “deforested areas”
Lack of government data on cleared land causes fears new cash crops will drive deforestation
Caption: Much of the expansion of soya plantations in Brazil is onto land formerly or currently used by cattle ranchers, which pushes them further into forested areas (image: Lea Maimone
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Is feeding soybeans to China’s livestock driving Amazon deforestation?
Impetus comes from Chinese soya demand but the causes of Brazilian deforestation are more complex
Caption: President Dilma Rousseff presents the country’s national climate plan at the UN in New York (image: Roberto Stuckert Filho/PR).
Brazil’s national climate plan praised
43% GHG reduction by 2030 “ambitious” but experts remain unconvinced by deforestation pledges
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