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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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