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Brazil’s biomes & sustainable development

Lula wants to mirror Amazon’s lessons in all biomes, but challenges await

A new decree intends to protect all of Brazil’s biomes and promote sustainable development in arguably one of the country’s most ambitious environmental policies to date.

Brazil’s environment minister Marina Silva

Brazil’s environment minister Marina Silva hopes to reverse Bolsonaro’s legacy

Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva, said the country’s new government faces a two-track project: One to “regain lost time” and the other to “advance the climate agenda further.”
Q&A with Marina Silva Brazil
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Brazil’s new environmental future under Lula: Q&A with Marina Silva

Considered for Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment, environmentalist Marina Silva says in an interview with Mongabay that the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva means a new cycle of prosperity for the country.

Amazon watch: What happens when the forest disappears?
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Amazon watch: What happens when the forest disappears?

Brazilian and American scientists are keeping watch for a critical tipping point – the time when the Amazon ceases to be a carbon sink and turns into a source of carbon emissions.

Mac Margolis: Brazil's good-news story is hiding in Amazon rainforest
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Mac Margolis: Brazil's good-news story is hiding in Amazon rainforest

And its next president has a chance to lock in some even bigger green gains.
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