Cameroon’s electricity sector has entered a new period of turbulence after two major power plants suspended their output from the Southern Interconnected Grid (RIS), exposing the financial vulnerabilities that continue to threaten the country’s power supply.
Brazil’s federal environment agency last year gave out the fewest fines for breaking conservation laws since 1995, the agency’s press office said, as the efficacy of the agency, known as Ibama, continues to fall under President Jair Bolsonaro.
Deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest threatens to accelerate and draw increased global concern since no new fire prevention measures have been taken in the crucial run-up to this year’s dry season, according to a group called MapBiomas that monitors the rate of forest destruction.
Crude oil smudges have been spotted at some Brazilian beaches in the northeast state of Ceará, the country’s navy said, almost two months after the area was hit by another oil slick.
Deforestation on protected indigenous lands in the Amazon was almost three times higher than the loss of trees in the region as a whole and the highest since 2008, according to a new study based on satellite imagery.
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published.
Brazil will push to expand oil drilling in its massive “pre-salt” oil and gas area off its coast in spite of growing global concerns about climate change, the country’s energy minister told Reuters.
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to the worst level of deforestation since 2008, heaping further pressure on the environmental policy of President Jair Bolsonaro who favors developing the Amazon region economically.