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Research guarantees that there are no coral reefs on the Amazon coast as environmentalists maintain

Trees are essential to maintain human life on Earth. The first reason is that they sequester carbon through photosynthesis, an increasingly important asset in times of climate change. Furthermore, forests are shelters of biodiversity, especially fruits, leaves, roots and animals. And, finally, trees generate income, whether through tucumã seeds, which turns into moisturizers and perfumes, or throu...

Mitigating the negative impacts of solid waste and preventing it from simply becoming "garbage" is crucial throughout the world, but in the Amazon, this awareness becomes even more important. After all, the Amazon is an ecosystem where rivers and springs, coastlines, mangroves, groundwater and countless animals and forest areas pulsate. In other words, this environment is definitely not...

"Círios", the song written by Marco Aurélio and Vital Lima, refers, in the plural, to the many “October months” experienced by people from Pará, not only in the capital. However, in an expanded interpretation, it could be a reminder of the plurality of feelings inspired by the Mother of Jesus throughout Pará, with celebrations that, even holding similarities, preserve unique peculiaritie...

Regardless of how it is called – tortoise, iaçá or tracajá –, the chelonians of the Amazon have always caught the world's attention due to the high degree of species diversity, with different appearances and behaviors, as well as for the profusion of animals on the region's beaches and rivers. And riverside communities are agents of protection for chelonians and conservation of species thr...

There is one ecosystem in the Amazon where the pressure of deforestation cannot prevail: mangroves, which play a strong role in the socio-economic sustainability of riverside communities, as well as in the extraction of subsistence resources from the consumption of fish and crabs. A study carried out by the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), the Federal Rural University of the Amazon (Ufra) and th...

In addition to the forests and rivers that make up the region's most characteristic scenery, the Brazilian Amazon has vast options of landscapes and destinations that enchant, such as dunes, mangroves and the coastal seashore. But it's not just the beauty that attracts tourists, but also the opportunity to experience the different lifestyles of the people. This is the proposal put forward...

Used to protect crops from the destructive effects of insects, larvae, fungi and ticks, pesticides are synthetic chemical health-detrimental products, which silently become part of most Brazilians’ everyday life. In a country that shows its strong agricultural vocation through impressive numbers in the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) calculation, pesticides are increasingly more closely stud...

"Amazon Day" will be celebrated this Tuesday (September 5). The date reinforces the importance of defining paths for the future of the planet's most important biome. With a territorial extension almost eight times the size of France, the Brazilian Amazon occupies almost 60% of the national territory and is home to a multitude of people, plants and animals. The biome is increasingly i...

Sharing knowledge is one of the keys for the Pan-Amazon region to combat climate change. That's why the eight countries that share the biome (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela) have decided to formalize international cooperation to protect the region's fauna, flora, water resources and inhabitants. Led by Brazil, the nations that integrate the Amazon...

Put in the limelight on the socio-environmental agenda, the Amazon region should be one of the most debated topics at the 28th United Nations Conference on Climate Change, COP 28, to be held between November 30th and December 12th, this year in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The countries that share the Amazon biome (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela) are expec...

Due to the absence of a zero deforestation goal and the lack of in-depth discussions regarding oil exploration in the region, the results of the "Amazon Summit", which ended on the 9th, were evaluated as below expectations by experts on environmental issues and civil society. The "Belem Declaration", a document that resulted from the meeting of representatives of eight South Am...

Representatives of the eight member countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization are meeting in Belém on the 8th and 9th for the Amazon Summit. The meeting is expected to result in the signing of the Belém Declaration, a 130-paragraph agreement between the countries that should start a joint journey towards the next United Nations Climate Conference, which will take place at the end of...

You might not have heard about it yet, but the fruit – golosa – shows a trend of increasing popularity. It is one more option in the richly varied menu of Amazonian fruits that, little by little, is being discovered by the people of the region. The fruit is already highly sought-after in the southwest of Pará, especially in the municipality of São Félix do Xingu.

The concept of ecofeminism emerged amid the boiling environmental movement in the 1970s, with the term 'ecological feminism' appearing in the work 'Feminism or Death' by French philosopher and writer Françoise D'Eaubonne. Today, according to data from the United Nations (UN), 80% of people displaced by environmental disasters and climate change-related problems are women.

The Manaus Industrial Pole is home to around 600 industries, is responsible for 108,373 workers employed and for a turnover of R$174.1 billion by companies that are part of the financial and tax incentive program, according to data consolidated in 2022 by the Superintendence of the Manaus Free Trade Zone. This is an increase of 6.84% over the previous year's turnover. The number of jobs increa...

The pests and diseases that affect plantations in the Amazon should not be underestimated. Losses of 70% of açaí seedlings cultivated in nurseries due to anthracnose have already been identified. In the municipality of Tomé-Açu, in the northeast of the State of Pará, there is an example of the so-called “progressive death”, which affected 50% of the cupuaçu clones in the field. These numbers are c...

The fact that it is a diverse biome makes the Amazon region home to many "Amazons," with portions that differ from one another due to their own characteristics. The trees in the southern belt of the Amazon ecosystem, for example, are more vulnerable to drought and therefore more likely to die. The conclusion is from a study signed by 80 researchers from Brazilian and foreign scientific i...

A matéria-prima símbolo da economia da região na virada do século XIX para o século XX ergueu palácios e teatros no Norte do Brasil, com a riqueza concentrada nas mãos de uma elite que explorava seringueiros por meio da escravidão por dívidas, conhecida como “sistema de aviamento”. Hoje, o cenário é outro: os seringueiros extraem látex com o conhecimento adquirido de pais e avós e são remunerados,...

In the first quarter of the year, more than 103million tons of cargo went through the 83 ports in operation in the Amazon. Ofthis total, 78.5% refers to regional shipped products. The commodity dominatingthe statistics is iron ore, which accounts for 41% of everything that goes intothe ships and sail from the Amazon towards different parts of the world. Stillon the list, are soy (24.9%), bauxite (...

Today's subject is the Paru Forest and it’s giant trees located between the states of Pará ANS Amapá, In Brazil. We also discuss the role the Sahara desert plays In the Amazon region and the wood wide web.

Today's subject is Amazonian literature, rich in diversity and great authors. In the complete article, at liberalamazon.com, you can check out a timeline of the region's literary creation, with great authors and works.

The fifth generation of mobile connection, 5G, promises to be the next big step in technology based on the flow of information, with faster speed and reduced signal fluctuations for internet access. If, on the one hand, it is unquestionable that the speed can be 100 times greater than the current 4G internet connection, the uncertainty that still looms concerns the extent to which this technology...

Despite its prohibition in Brazil, the illegal commercialization of mercury continues to pose  risks to human health throughout the national territory. In the Amazon, however, this problem is aggravated by the expansion of predatory mining activities in recent years.

Indigenous people suffer from lack of food and water in the Amazon, one of the two richest world biomes in biodiversity. What seems contradictory is, in fact, the result of the rampant progress of criminal organizations and the absence of public policies for these populations. In this week's Liberal Amazon, you will learn more about the humanitarian crisis in Roraima and the hunger that also affec...