Field fires -- like this one in June 2025 in São Félix do Xingu, Para state, Brazil -- are a cheap way to clear pastures By AFP - Agence France Presse Who is setting fire to the Amazon? by Anna PELEGRI with data analysis by Luiza AGNOL and Michelly NERIS in Sao Paulo "Red John" is an old acquaintance of landowners and ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon. He helps clear pastures cheaply, but also leaves blackened earth and charred trees in his wake—threatening the planet's larges

© RAFA NEDDERMEYER/COP30 site Agencia Brasil/André Corrêa do Lago negotiations By AFP - Agence France Presse AI-generated disinformation tactics spotted ahead of COP30 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A clip said to show massive flooding in the Amazonian city hosting the UN climate summit is just one widely-shared example of how disinformation, cheaply created by artificial intelligence and circulating on social media, is influencing perceptions of COP30. A new report released on Wednesday

António Guterres. This file is from the Audiovisual Service website of the European Commission and is licensed under the Creative  Commons Attribution  4.0 International license. Dear colleagues, Please find below the as-delivered remarks of United Nations Secretary General  António Guterres at the Pleanry of Leaders of the Belém Climate Summit.  Best regards, UN Climate Change Communications Team THE SECRETARY-GENERAL -- REMARKS AT THE PLENARY OF LEADERS OF THE BELÉM CLI

The COP29 gathering in Baku ended with developed nations agreeing to provide US$300 billion annually in climate finance to poorer countries by 2035, a figure criticised as way below what is needed to meet the challenge. PHOTO: AFP By AFP - Agence France Presse World Has 'The Tools' To Unlock $1.3 Trillion In Climate Finance: COP30 Report By Ali BEKHTAOUI The world has all the tools in hand to provide $1.3 trillion in climate finance to vulnerable nations, from debt relief to

PRESSING ISSUES Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in a briefing with foreign media ahead of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference on Nov. 4, 2025. AFP Photo By AFP - Agence France Presse EU Strikes Last-ditch Deal On Climate Targets As COP30 Looms By Adrien DE CALAN The European Union struck a deal Wednesday on the 27-nation bloc's next big emissions-cutting targets in time for next week's UN COP30 climate summit at the cost of deep concessions to reluctant capit

Brazil is backing the creation of a global investment fund that would reward tropical countries for every hectare of forest they protect each year (Handout) By AFP - Agence France Presse Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30 Nick Perry Tropical countries from Cameroon to Colombia could earn tens of millions of dollars a year under a novel approach to protecting the world's rainforests being launched at the COP30 summit in Brazil. The inauguration of the Trop

Handicrafts showcase the Curupira and other beings from Amazonian culture in preparation for COP30 . Photo : Gabriel Della Giustina / COP30 Belém prepares for COP30 with creativity, flavors, and Amazonian pride In the countdown to COP30, Belém (PA) is transforming itself to welcome delegations from around the world, revealing the talent, hospitality, and Amazonian pride of its people. From the moment they disembark at the airport, murals with macaws, jaguars, and the legenda

Chef Saulo Jennings has cooked for presidents, ambassadors, and Mariah Carey. PHOTO: THIAGO GOMES, THIAGO GOMES Why an Amazonian chef refused to prepare a vegan dinner for Prince William's event Saulo Jennings, a chef from the Amazon region of Brazil, is so passionate about the flavors of the forest—like pirarucu—that he refused to prepare a vegan dinner at an environmental event for Prince William. He argues that sustainability involves a balance between plant and animal ing

© WMO/Pete Stevens The electricity generated by wind farms reduces the reliance on coal-powered energy. New climate pledges do little to correct global warming projections, UN warns Climate and Environment Available new climate pledges by governments have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leaving the world on the path to a serious escalation of climate risks and damages. The warning comes in the latest Emissions Gap Report by the U

Photo: © Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil Fund for forests is well received by countries, says Haddad Minister expects to raise US$10 billion by 2026 Elaine Patricia Cruz – Reporter for Agência Brasil Published on 04/11/2025 - 11:09 São Paulo The proposal for the Tropical Forests Forever Fund (TFFF), led by Brazil, has been well received by other countries, said Finance Minister Fernando Haddad on Tuesday (4), during a conversation with journalists, before participating in a panel

Photo © Diogo Zacarias Climate adaptation should be a priority at COP30, says ambassador Just over 60 countries have submitted their mitigation targets. Elaine Patricia Cruz – Reporter for Agência Brasil Published on 03/11/2025 - 20:55 São Paulo Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, president of the 30th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP30), said this Monday (3), in São Paulo, that he hopes the issue of climate adaptation will be an “absolute priority” at COP30, an

"SUS at the forefront of climate adaptation." Photo: Igor Evangelista/MS - MMA SUS and Climate Change: Brazil Can Make Health a Global Example BRAZIL. OPINION The announcement that Brazil will present, during COP 30 in Belém, the Belém Health Action Plan, inspired by the Unified Health System (SUS), represents a remarkable advance in the integration between public health and climate change. The country, which for decades has been building one of the most comprehensive primary

Photo: A person at a desk in front of a computer, Canva image. The Green Amazon News is entering a period of restructuring. Starting November 10 , 2025, the newspaper will return with a new editorial rhythm and its own independent news curation. We’d also like to inform our readers that we are not affiliated with Presse News or Agence France-Presse. From now on, all published content will come from independent reporting, selection, and production, with a strong focus on sust

This handout picture, taken and released by Customs Mumbai International Airport, shows a silvery gibbon as it was seized from a checked baggage of a passenger travelling from Malaysia via Thailand. (AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse India Seizes Endangered Primates Found In Checked Bag Oct 31, 2025 Indian customs officers have arrested a plane passenger after discovering two endangered gibbons stuffed inside a checked bag, the latest animals seized from smugglers at Mumbai'

Camels can be milked five times a day, making them a valuable source of nutrition (Luis TATO). (Luis TATO/AFP/AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse Camels Replace Cows As Kenya Battles Drought By Julie CAPELLE "God, God, God, protect them," chanted two herders, their eyes following a dozen camels rushing toward acacia trees, oblivious to the dry riverbed in northern Kenya where it hasn't rained since April. Sitting on the edge of a nearby well, Chapan Lolpusike recounted how his

The shipment is probably contaminated with the radioactive isotope cesium-137. Getty Images By AFP - Agence France Presse Row Leaves Radioactive Shipment Stranded Off the Philippines Oct 31, 2025 More than 20 containers of radioactive zinc have been stranded off the Philippine coast for over than a week, and a solution for their disposal is needed "fast", a nuclear official said on Friday. Traces of radioactive Caesium-137 were detected in the 23 containers in Indonesia, whic

A woman walks amid debris of a damaged house after the passage of Hurricane Melissa in Boca de Dos Rios village, Santiago de Cuba province, Cuba (YAMIL LAGE) By AFP - Agence France Presse Nearly 50 Dead After Hurricane Melissa Thrashes Caribbean By Rigoberto Diaz with AFP bureaus in Kingston, Jamaica, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti Hurricane Melissa was "moving quickly away" from Bermuda early Friday after the death toll rose to nearly 50 people, officials said. The ferocious stor