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(Reuters) - Geoengineering science is advancing, but the question remains - should we use it?

Extreme heat waves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because of global warming, while downpours

Article content RIO DE JANEIRO — Canadian miner Yamana Gold is cutting its projected expenses to expand the Jacobina complex in northeastern Brazil by up to 74%, after tests at its processing plant went better than expected, Chief Executive Peter Marrone told Reuters. The company plans to increase its annual production capacity at the mining complex to 230,000 ounces of gold by the second half of 2023, up from 180,000 ounces currently. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refr...

3 Min Read BRASILIA, July 30 (Reuters) - Brazilian state governors met with U.S. climate envoy John Kerry on Friday, sidestepping the country’s President Jair Bolsonaro in the first of several meetings with foreign powers to request funding for conservation projects aimed at combating climate change. Bolsonaro has rolled back environmental enforcement and called for construction on protected areas since taking office in 2019, contributing to a surge in deforestation and wildfires in the Amazo...

Article content BRASILIA — Brazilian bank Santander Brasil said on Tuesday that current Chief Executive Sergio Rial would become board chairman, while corporate banking head Mario Roberto Opice Leão will become CEO, in moves that will take effect in January. Rial, who has been at the helm of Santander Brasil since January 2016, will also leave his position as regional head for South America. Carlos Rey de Vicente, current vice-president of finance, will replace him. We apologize, but this vi...

Reuters 1 minute read Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan holds a dose of Bharat Biotechs COVID-19 vaccine called COVAXIN, during a vaccination campaign at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital in New Delhi, India, January 16, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo BRASILIA, July 26 (Reuters) - Brazilian health regulator Anvisa on Monday said it had canceled a clinical study for the Covaxin vaccine for COVID-19 developed by Indias Bharat Biotech, amid allegations of irregulari...

By Syndicated Content By Stephen Eisenhammer and Oliver Griffin SAO PAULO/BOGOTA (Reuters) – More than 10,000 species of plants and animals are at high risk of extinction due to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest – 35% of which has already been deforested or degraded, according to the draft of a landmark scientific report published on Wednesday. Produced by the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA), the report brings together research on the world’s largest rainfor...

SAO PAULO — Brazilian energy company Equatorial Energy bought northern Amapa state electric utility Companhia de Eletricidade do Amapa (CEA) in a privatization…

President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday said Brazil never paid for or received any doses of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Indian company Bharat Biotech, in response to allegations of irregularities in a deal that is under investigation.

Under President Jair Bolsonaro, deforestation rates have increased by most measures in Brazil. But recent statements from Bolsonaro and members of his government have indicated that the policies that lead to this deforestation may be changing. Ana Mano at Reuters reported that Brazil’s Agriculture Minister, Tereza Cristina Dias, announced a plan to pay certain farmers to preserve forest and savannah—to not farm, in other words. In this new announcement, farmers would be paid to preserve env...