By Igor Patrick Brasil CRT pledges investment of US$1.85 trillion in state of Paraiba, but suspicions arise after a video of the proposal apparently duplicates that of a project for Shenzen, China. Source: Chinese consortium’s ‘smart city’ project raises eyebrows and questions in Brazil
By Flávia Milhorance and Paulo Motoryn While Brazil vows to fight climate change, lawmakers approved a law making it harder for Indigenous tribes to block deforestation, overriding a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Source: Brazil’s Congress Weakens Protection of Indigenous Lands, Defying Lula Category: Indigenous People, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate […]
Nearly 1,000 seals and sea lions have died from bird flu outbreaks in southern Brazil. Authorities are working to isolate the deadly virus from commercial poultry flocks. The outbreak has resulted in an unprecedented 942 sea mammal deaths in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The virus attacks the nervous system of sea mammals, […]