German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sought to drum up support for Ukraine during his first South American tour although differences with his hosts emerged, with Argentine President Alberto Fernandez declaring the region was not planning on sending weapons. On his three-day trip, Scholz has sought to stress unity, noting all three countries he is visiting - Argentina, Chile and Brazil - condemned Russia's invasion at the United Nations General Assembly last year.
Fires that swept across South America's Pantanal wetlands in 2020 burned thousands of square kilometres of critical jaguar habitat and may threaten the big cats' long-term survival, new research reveals. The blazes displaced, injured or killed 45% of the region's 1,668 jaguars, the second-largest jaguar population in the world, according to the study published on Thursday in the journal Communications Biology.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was accused by opposition figures on Sunday of turning his trip to London for Queen Elizabeth's funeral into an election campaign event, in what critics said was his latest attack on Brazil's reputation. Bolsonaro flew to London just two weeks before the Oct. 2 first-round vote, in which he trails in opinion polls to his leftist rival, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
They also chew coca leaves, a plant that has been used as an energy supply for centuries in the Andes and that is also the raw ingredient of cocaine. "It's impossible to work without coca in the mine because of the toxic gases," said Miguel Angel Delgadillo, who has worked in Cerro Rico for 25 years.
The body said these rules allow its members - which account for about 85% of Brazil's steel - to make "carbon-neutral" steel, as the greenhouse gas emissions from their production are offset by the forests planted by the mills. DIRTY INDUSTRY In addition to the climate cost of charcoal production and use, a human price is being paid, labor officials say. Since 1995, about 2,830 people have been found working in slavery-like conditions at charcoal production sites in Brazil, with 2,080 of them using wood from native forests, according to data supplied by Mauricio Krepsky, the head of Brazil's anti-slavery department DETRAE.