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Analysis: Military stand-off could lead to war neither side wants
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 13 days ago
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THE war of words between Bogota and Caracas has moved up to one of limited action as Hugo Chavez blows up bridges linking the two nations, blocks Colombian imports, restricts border crossing and harasses Colombians moving within Venezuela.
Tags: Amazonas, Brazil, Nicolas Sarkozy, Commonwealth, France, French Guiana, amazon summit, Denmark, Copenhagen, Environment, Luiz Inￃﾡcio Lula da Silva, ￃﾁlvaro Uribe, Deforestation, Climate change, Amazon Rainforest, Forestry, Carbon finance, Bharrat Jagdeo, Rainforest, Post-Kyoto Protocol negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions, Global warming, Manaus, Barack Obama, Government of Andorra, Politics, Deforestation in Brazil, Colombia, War Conflict, Rainforests, Presidents of Colombia, Metallurgists
Harvesting a cancer cure
São Paulo :: Brazil | 16 days ago
Credibility The task of harvesting the secrets of Brazil’s vast Amazon rain forest that could help in the battle against cancer largely falls to Osmar Barbosa Ferreira and a big pair of clippers. In jungle so dense it all but blocks out the sun, the lithe 46-year-old...
Tags: Amazonas, Drauzio Varella, Natural Products Branch, Sao Paulo, Brazil, São Paulo, Natural product, Paclitaxel, Wine and health, Amazon Rainforest, Cancer, Carandiru, Health Medical Pharma, Environment
In Amazon, a frustrated search for cancer cures
São Paulo :: Brazil | 23 days ago
Credibility The task of harvesting the secrets of Brazil's vast Amazon rain forest that could help in the battle against cancer largely falls to Osmar Barbosa Ferreira and a big pair of clippers. In jungle so dense it all but blocks out the sun, the lithe 46-year-old...
Tags: Sao Paulo, Amazonas, Drauzio Varella, Brazil, São Paulo, Amazon Rainforest, Carandiru, Sￃﾣo Paulo, Health Medical Pharma, Environment
Missing Brazilian air force plane located, nine survivors found
Cruzeiro :: Brazil | about 1 month ago
Credibility The other nine are fine," the air force authorities said Friday. The Cessna C-98 Caravan made a forced landing Thursday morning in the Amazon forest along the Itui river between the villages of Aurelio and Rio Novo, the authorities added. The crashed...
Tags: air force, Amazonas, Amazing Amazon
Accused Brazil TV host 'missing'
Manaus :: Brazil | 2 months ago
Credibility Wallace Souza, also a local congressman, had enjoyed parliamentary immunity until last week when the Amazonas state assembly expelled him. A search is under way, with airports and roads from the city of Manaus in the Amazon region being monitored...The...
Tags: Wallace Souza, Brazilian, tv host, Amazonas, Brazil, Manaus
Brazil TV host 'ordered killings'
São Paulo :: Brazil | 4 months ago
Credibility Police have accused a TV presenter in Brazil of being involved in organised drug trafficking and ordering killings to get rid of rivals and boost ratings. Wallace Souza, who is also a state legislator, says the claims are an attempt by rivals to smear...
Tags: Brazillian, Brazilian, Wallace Souza, tv host, drug traffickers, ordering killings, tv crime, Amazonas, boost ratings
New monkey discovered in Brazilian Amazon (Reuters)
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 5 months ago
Credibility Researchers have discovered a new sub-species of monkey in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest, a U.S.-based wildlife conservation group said on Tuesday. The newly found monkey was first spotted by scientists in 2007 in the Brazilian state of Amazonas...
Tags: Brazilian Amazon, Amazonas
Peru moves to ease Amazon crisis
Lima :: Peru | 5 months ago
Credibility Peru's government is set to send a bill to Congress revoking land laws that led to deadly clashes between police and indigenous protesters in the Amazon. The move follows talks between the government and indigenous leaders on ways of easing tensions after...
Tags: Amazon Indians, Peruvian Congress, Peru Indian, Amazonas, Yehude Simon, prime minister, Alberto Pizango, minister yehude, indians protesters, cabinet chief
Peru to repeal Amazon development plans after clashes
Lima :: Peru | 5 months ago
Credibility Simon travelled Monday to the central city of Junin for talks with leaders of the protests against measures that give Lima the power to grant mining, logging and drilling concessions on Indian lands without consulting residents. The government will urge...
Tags: Peruvian, Amazonas, Yehude Simon, Amazonia, comes weeks
Peru president decries 'barbarity' in police deaths
Lima :: Peru | 6 months ago
Credibility President Alan Garcia accused Amazon Indians of "barbarity" Sunday in the killing of 22 members of a paramilitary police force sent to break up anti-development protests. While the blockades that had halted the flow of oil out of the jungle appeared mostly...
Tags: Peruvian, Amazon Indians, Amazon Jungle, Amazonas, Amazonian, Alan Garcia, indigenous tribes, Lima, Bagua Chica
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