Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
Brazil
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BRAZIL
Greenpeace activists from Brazil, Argentina, Spain, usa, Germany and Ghana cemented a discharge pipe belonging to a Dow Chemicals plant at Guaruja in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The pipe,
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Dinomites were here
Dinosaurs were tormented by parasitic mites, new research suggests. Dave Martill of the University of Portsmouth and his colleague Paul Davis used an electron microscope to study a
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Lost battle
It is no use trying to save the rainforests, warns a new study
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BRAZIL
Brazil has slashed funds which it had promised to contribute towards a pilot project aimed at preserving the Amazon forests. The US $250-million-project was backed by seven leading industrial
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Unwelcome move
Brazil approves of transgenic crops
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BRAZIL
Teenagers in Brazil gave birth to a staggering 900,000 babies in 1997, thus accounting for 26.5 per cent of all live births in the country. According to the ministry of health, girls between the age
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Brazil
Porto Privamera Dam, which is under construction for the last 20 years, may soon be commissioned. The dam will have serious environmental and social implications as it is being commissioned
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BRAZIL
Wildfires and a prolonged drought spurred by the El Ni
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BRAZIL
Brazil has planned to conserve 2.51 million hec tares (ha) of Amazon rain forest. This shows the government's commitment to the faltering preservation of the endangered tropical wilderness.
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Heat and sawdust
The fires in Brazil and in Indonesia speak volumes of what happens when humans try to make a living by killing forests and neglecting the poor