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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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Funding, infighting and forests – the Brazilian view on climate change

Brazil's special ambassador for climate change, Sergio Serra, offers an insider's view as negotiators gather in Bonn for another round of talks

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by henhcav - 03/08/2010 at 23:50

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Iran stoning woman offered asylum by Brazil’s president Lula

Offer raises hopes Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, will be spared

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Furious Felipe Massa insists he is not Ferrari’s No2 driver

• Brazilian says he will race to win after controversy in Germany
• Massa undeterred by return to scene of near fatal accident

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