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How do you justify tearing down the world’s greatest rainforest for agribusiness? Pretend it’s not a rainforest. That appears to be the thinking behind a bill introduced into Brazil’s lower house of Congress in February that proposes removing the state of Mato Grosso from the country’s formally recognized Amazonian region — despite the fact that […]

The whole world already uses hydropower stations (hereinafter – HPP, HPPs) as a main source of energy while Kazakhstan, possessing one of the most powerful hydro potentials, is only reconstructing its energy production sector.

An Indigenous Village Works To Save a Brazilian Forest, Seed by Seed. RIPÁ, Brazil — The men and women started off with their chief by truck, riding several miles until the road from their small village became too soft for the vehicle’s bald tires. They then kept going...

Brazil’s iconic araucaria trees, whose tufted branches also give them the name candelabra tree, are being pushed toward extinction as government agencies continue to ignore or even abet in their logging, experts say. The araucaria (Araucaria angustifolia) is a species native to the cooler and higher-elevation regions of southern Brazil. It can grow to a […]

Restoration initiatives are slowly making a mark on the Atlantic Forest, a Brazilian biome that has been reduced to about a quarter of its original area. Brazil has made global commitments to restore tens of millions of hectares of forest by 2030, but the much smaller programs underway in the Atlantic Forest show country is still unable to monitor restoration efforts effectively.

Hydropower is the largest source of clean and green energy in the world. Due to the ever-increasing demand for energy and global climate change, many countries have chosen to develop hydropower...

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Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.

The Parliament of Senegal passed a new Mining Code, Act No. 27/2016 on the Mining Code on 30 October 2016…

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