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Bolsonaro weakens environment agency as Amazon burns
BRASILIA: As the world recoils at the sight of fires ravaging Brazil’s Amazon jungle, the nation’s far-right government is undermining the agency charged with protecting the rainforest, Reuters has learned from interviews with ten current and former employees, public records
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Climate crisis in central Africa is worse than Amazon
While focus has slowly grown on the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, it has emerged an even greater number of fires are currently burning in central Africa. Data from Nasa’s Fire Information for Resource Management System, showed at
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Bolsonaro lashes out at French president while Amazon burns
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday he wants French President Emmanuel Macron to withdraw the “insults” made against him before he considers accepting a US$20 million offer from the G7 nations to help fight forest fires in the Amazon. The
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Brazil tells ambassadors no time off due to Amazon fires
BRASILI: Brazil’s Foreign Ministry yesterday ordered its ambassadors in Europe and other G7 countries not to take vacation for the next two weeks in order to coordinate a diplomatic response to global concerns over the fires raging in the Amazon
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Amazon fire: Warplanes dump water on the forest fire
BRASILIA/PORTO VELHO: Brazilian warplanes are dumping water on the burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to a global outcry over the destruction of the world’s largest tropical rain forest. Yesterday, President Jair Bolsonaro had authorised military operations
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Brazil to send troops to fight Amazon fires after EU’s intervention
European leaders yesterday threatened to tear up a trade deal with South America, reflecting growing international anger at Brazil as a record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest intensified an unfolding environmental crisis. Amid a global chorus of concern
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