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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Hackers' paradise
A weak environmental regime in Brazil allows free rein to Asian logging companies to plunder through the Amazon forests
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Gold plated genocide
The third gold rush is threatening to relic the last of Amazon's indigenous people
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BRAZIL
Brazil may end up attaining economic development at the cost of the environment. A team of scientists who analysed the implications of a proposed us $40 billion project called
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Brazil backs dubious project
The Special Commission of the National Congress of Brazil is studying various means of making the much derided Calha Norte mining project feasible in the country. The commission took advantage
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New Brazil law for environmental transparency
Over the past few months, Rachel Biderman Furriela a Brazil based lawyer and activist has been punching the keys of her laptop furiously. She is busy acknowledging congratulatory mails from her network of friends an international group of lawyers wo
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First step to control: legalisation
Brazil's government is trying to resolve the conflict between indigenous communities and people involved in illegal mining activities in Indian reserves. It is submitting a bill to the Congress to
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Brazil's sorrow
From homeland to terra incognita, the indigenous lands of Brazil have today fallen prey to a draconian decree
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Spy eye
There's bad news for illegal loggers, diamond miners and drug runners. A huge radar system called System for the Vigilance of the Amazon or sivam would scan 5.2 million square kilo metres of
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Less of a lustre
IN WHAT could be Latin America's biggest gold mine Brazil, the world's sixth largest goii:1 producer, has 'reported a major 150--tonne gold find worth nearly. us $2 billion. But this
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Brazil gives go ahead to GM corns
Despite objections from environmental and consumer groups, Brazil has authorized commercial use of two varieties of genetically modified (gm) corn. On February 12, the National Biosecurity