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Brazil to build world's third largest dam in Amazon
Ecologist
2nd February, 2010
Environmental groups say the Belo Monte dam project would devastate a large area of the Amazon rainforest and threaten the survival of indigenous peoples more...Greenwash award exposes Brazilian company
Ecologist
21st January, 2010
Brazilian cattle-ranching company named and shamed for destroying the land of an uncontacted tribe more...Will sugar be the oil of the 21st century?
Matilda Lee
1st December, 2009
You can turn it into everything from fuel to plastics. But will the surge in demand for sugar end up having a serious environmental impact? more...Clamping down on logging in Brazil moves it to Paraguay
Ecologist
20th November, 2009
Former Paraguayan government minister makes plea for West to intervene in runaway illegal logging situation displaced from Brazil more...MPs call for an end to GM crop protests
Ecologist
22nd July, 2009
MP's report leaves environmentalists facing a dilemma, should they allow GM crop trials or not? more...Copenhagen success rests on cash and commitment
Ecologist
10th July, 2009
New research has revealed that a lack of finance and political commitment lie at the heart of the slow take-up of renewables, as a UK think tank calls for cash for low-carbon technology to be ringfenced more...Tesco 'trusts' cattle suppliers involved in Amazon deforestation
Ecologist
3rd July, 2009
Despite the lack of traceability in the supply chain, the assurances of cattle producers that they are not involved in the illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is apparently enough for Tesco, a letter to the Guardian reveals more...Cattle ranching biggest driver of Amazon deforestation
Ecologist
27th May, 2009
Cattle ranchers bigger culprits in Amazon deforestation than soy farmers, new NGO study shows more...Space Race
George Hackford
30th July, 2008
The Brazilian Space Agency and Britain’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory are planning to boldly go into new realms of space-based rainforest protection. more...Cargill's Amazon soy plant forced to close
News
26th March, 2007
Cargill, the international agribusiness giant, has been forced to closed a soy-bean export terminal in the Amazon. more...Greening Cities
Dan Box
1st April, 2003
With human beings about to become a predominantly urban species, Dan Box asks whether cities can ever be sustainable. more...