Brazil has no plan to launch a dedicated sovereign Amazon bond, a senior treasury official told Reuters, and will instead fund protection of the world's biggest rainforest via its new environmental ...
Much of western Brazil is under stress and the Amazon basin rivers are registering at historic lows. Boats have been stranded on sandbanks, with people forced to transport goods on foot.
Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil - the most intense blazes for almost a decade. The northern states of Roraima, Acre, Rondônia and Amazonas have been particularly ...