New gas pipeline prompts fears for Amazon rainforest
The pipe will deliver cheaper, cleaner energy to Manaus but environmentalists fear it will lead to rainforest exploitation
Categories: Amazon, News about Brazil Tags: Article, Brazil, Damian Carrington, Endangered habitats, Energy, Environment, Forests, Gas, News, Oil, World news
First Amazon bridge to open world’s greatest rainforest to development
A new bridge has come to symbolise Brazil's most challenging and urgent issue: balancing the demands of economic development with environmental protection
• Interactive: Brazil's Manaus-Iranduba crossing
• Can Brazil become the world's first environmental superpower?
Categories: Amazon, News about Brazil Tags: Article, Brazil, Carbon emissions, Conservation, Damian Carrington, Environment, Forests, News, World news
Amazon deforestation in dramatic decline, official figures show
Increased use of satellite data and new tactics to deter loggers have led to drop, says Brazilian environment agency
Categories: Amazon, Brazil Tags: Article, Brazil, Conservation, Damian Carrington, Deforestation, Endangered habitats, Environment, Forests, News, World news
Illegal logging of tropical rainforests down by up to 75%
Report says governments, pressure groups and private sector all share credit for protecting extra 17m hectares of tropical rainforest
Categories: Amazon, Brazil, News about Brazil Tags: Article, Conservation, David Adam, Deforestation, Endangered habitats, Environment, Forests, News, World news
Amazonas, the opera: a world premiere – and a world first
A groundbreaking operatic spectacle puts Brazil's Yanomami tribe in the spotlight – and highlights the destruction of the rainforest

