It is no use trying to save the rainforests, warns a new study

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

Brazil approves of transgenic crops

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

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

Wildfires and a prolonged drought spurred by the El Ni

Brazil has planned

As the mid-day sun shines red through the smoke rising from dozens of forest fires, the Yanomami Indians say it is a sign of the apocalypse, and environmentalists fear that they may be right. The

The fires in the Amazon forest show no signs of abating. Lax environmental laws have added fuel to them