Deforestation in the Amazon.

He explored the Amazon jungle.

The Amazon Rainforest covers all of the state territory.

Online petitions against deforestation in the Amazon are attempting to mobilize society.

It is the largest city in the state and one of Brazil's most populous.

Brazil has significantly reduced the rate of deforestation in the Amazon.

In Manaus, in the Amazon region, the price could go up even further.

This post is part of our special coverage Forest Focus Amazon and Global Development 2011.

Amazon was incorporated in 1994, in the state of Washington.

In its lowermost section the Amazon's depth averages , in some places as much as .

In 2013, Matt Finer, a researcher with the Amazon Conservation Association, heard from locals that someone was cutting down rainforest deep in the Peruvian Amazon, far from prying eyes.

Commission approves planting sugar cane in the Legal Amazon http www.oeco.org.br salada verde 2

Prometheus, Medea, the Amazons and, in neighboring Armenia, Noah s Ark the Europe of our myths starts here.

This post is part of our special coverage Indigenous Rights, Global Development 2011 and Forest Focus Amazon.

Naval bases from Lake Titicaca to the Amazon are daubed with the motto The sea is ours by right.

Indigenous populations live among oil spills, gas leaks and other environmental incidents that often are buried in the dense jungle for decades.

Brazil has cleared huge areas of its jungle in order to produce the bio ethanol that impressed the Secretary General.

He is 39 years old, and for over ten years he has dedicated his life to gathering evidence of pollution by the oil companies that operate in the Amazon region with the largest number of environmental scars in the country.

Namun sayangnya, baru sedikit negara negara yang memiliki hutan tropis yang telah menyerahkan rencana mereka dan belum satu pun negara negara di Amazon yang telah melakukannya.

The Amazonian city of Iquitos is strategically located on the banks of three rivers the Nanay, the Itaya, and the mighty Amazon.

Moreover, academics and researchers continue to provide data and studies about the dangers of palm oil cultivation for the fragile Amazon ecosystem.

freibetto Planting sugarcane or soy in the Amazon is to decree the end of the forest and the beginning of a future Sahara desert in the north of Brazil.

This is good news for mining, oil, and gas companies eyeing rich reserves under the Amazon rain forest and the Pacific shelf.

Large tracts of boreal forest across North America and Eurasia have only a handful of tree species, while the Amazon basin may house 16,000.

Wilson Sandy follows the oil footprints in the Peruvian Amazon with the cleverness of a detective and the determination of those protecting their home the Achuar territory of Loreto.

Brazil must also pay more attention to environmental management, especially in the fragile yet critical Amazon region, if it wants long term, sustainable economic development.

José Álvarez, a researcher for IIAP (Peruvian Amazon Research Institute), published an article entitled Monocultures in the Nanay?

Experts estimate that a monoculture of sugar cane will disrupt the ecosystem's biodiversity, will harm the survival of the indigenous and traditional populations, and will extend farming into other areas of the Amazon forest.

Elsewhere in the 2007 assessment, Working Group II claimed that up to 40 of the Amazonian forests were at imminent risk of being destroyed by global warming.

Brazil has opened the door to the cultivation of sugar cane for the first time in areas of the Amazon forest and surrounding wetlands and savanna, causing concern among environmentalists.

According to Alexandra Aikhenvald, a linguist specializing in Amazon languages, their language belongs to the Kampa ethnolinguistic branch, which in turn belongs to the Arawak family. The Nomatsigenga's diverse base of traditional knowledge is also disappearing with time.

Nestled in the middle of the Amazon forest, it's been closed off for visitation since 2003 on a recommendation by the federal prosecutor's office and a decision by IBAMA, Brazil's environmental agency.

Residing within the southern part of Ecuador s Amazon region, the approximately 1,200 strong Kichwa community of Sarayaku have drawn international attention for their battles over land and indigenous rights battles that have relied on worldwide support.

It is the policy of the Peruvian government, and a formal commitment to the international community, to protect old growth Amazon forests, as a measure to reduce carbon emissions and to help mitigate the impacts of climate change.

The recent floods that ravaged the Amazon regions of Peru as well as the city of Iquitos, and reached and surpassed the highest point recorded in history since 1986 (see illustrative photos of the reported floods taken by a member of the Red Cross), began to subside at the end of April and started visibly draining away in the first days of May.

After 40 years of oil exploitation in Loreto, the government has declared an environmental and health emergency in four basins located around lot 192 (ex 1AB) in the Amazon region, where the company Pluspetrol Norte operates.

Even President Ollanta Humala in a recent press conference mentioned an Amazon area, the Alto Huallaga, as a potential for agribusiness, for coffee, for cocoa, for palm oil, for planting fruit trees.

Federal Bill number 626 2011 , approved by the Brazilian Federal Senate on May 15, 2013, allows sugar cane farming in an area called Amazônia Legal, which comprises the geographical regions of the Amazon forest, the tropical savanna Cerrado, and the swamp land Pantanal.

RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil has been making international headlines of late, but not for traditional stories about urban violence, natural catastrophes, political corruption, or deforestation in the Amazon.

Now, if you go to an Amazon jungle and fog a tree, you may get a lot of bugs, but for fishes, there's nowhere in the world you can get seven new species per hour of time.

This has been, and continues to be now the reality for women in many parts of the world, such as in the Quichua and Shuar communities of the Amazon jungle, where women often give birth alone, in the majority of cases without midwives, without pain, without fear, without caesareans, without death