Mato Grosso, Brazil News

We've talked about Lara Donatoni Matana's work before, but we recently came across these amazing pieces of design she's been working with over the past years.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited by Lula to visit Brazil last May. Following protests in all major cities in the country by Christian, Jewish, candomble, gay rights, women's, and human rights groups, Brazil's Foreign Office announced that the trip had been canceled.

Editor's Note: The following special report was compiled by the editors of Corn and Soybean Digest, a sister publication of Delta Farm Press.

GDAE's research program on Agricultural Expansion and Climate Change has published a new Working Paper highlighting the environmental costs of agricultural expansion in the Amazon.

Leaders of conservation groups from the United States and South America are requesting that international donors end their support for a road that would connect Amazonian towns in Brazil and Peru.

We're talking about deforestation in the Amazon all the time, but can we really understand the magnitude of what we're saying? This is where an image is worth a thousand words: this is how a 15 tons, 40 meters tall, A 250! years of age, fallen tree from the Amazon looks like.

The de facto leader of Honduras offered last night to hold direct talks with Manuel Zelaya, the ousted President, even as soldiers laid siege to the embassy where Mr Zelaya was taking refuge.

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil's Federal Police on Monday arrested 11 people on charges of fraud involving public contracts totalling 219 million reais .

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil's Federal Police on Monday arrested 11 people on charges of fraud involving public contracts totalling 219 million reais .

"Jaguar, jaguar!" The driver fails to suppress his excitement as he slams on the car brakes.

Professor H. Lynn Beck recently published his first book, "Henry and Anthony." Beck said that he felt the need to publish his work after years of classroom storytelling.

Dan Owsley, David Parham, Bill Alexander, Mary Spencer and Bill Spencer during their volunteer trip to Cuiaba, Brazil.

This article in The Economist deserves praise for, if nothing else, a comprehensive view of the issues involving the Amazon and the debate over methods to protect while developing it in a sustainable fashion.