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12/27/98--Chico Mendes--A Crusader's Legacy Blurs in Brazil's Bitter Politics

12/25/98--Call for More Forest Reserves in the Brazilian Amazon

12/22/98--Brazil's Land Reform Passes Target

12/22/98--Rainforest Fails to Absorb Excess Carbon During El Nino

12/21/98--Amazon's Climatic Role

12/21/98--Legacy of Brazil's Chico Mendes at Risk 10 Years On

12/18/98--Brazil Ensures Chico Mendes' Killer Remains in Prison

12/16/98--Worrying New El Nino Effect Seen in Amazon Rainforests

12/16/98--Amazon Carbon Ebbs and Flows

12/16/98--10th Anniversary of Chico Mendes Murder Sees Rainforest in Worst State Ever

11/30/98--Brazil's Rainforest Plan Under Fire

11/26/98--First Prefabricated House from Certified Wood Launched in Brazil

11/26/98--Brazil Under Fire Over Plan to Cut Amazon Program

11/13/98--Fire Risk High in Thirsty Amazon Rainforest

11/12/98--Dire Amazon Rainforest Predictions

11/4/98--Thirteen Die in Clash in Brazil Indian Territory

10/3/98--Death Throes of the Rainforest Will Increase Global Warming

10/3/98--International Pressure Forces Mobil from Amazon Area

9/30/98--Firefighters Put out Flames in Brazilian Park

9/27/98--Greenpeace Lends Its Name to 500 Products in Brazil

9/16/98--Burning Up Again in Brazilian Amazon

9/15/98--World Bank Funds Amazon Fire Prevention

9/14/98--Amazon Risks Grow as Rainforest Gets Drier

9/2/98--Firefighters Contain Fires that Threatened Indigenous Reservation

9/1/98--Wind and Rain Cut Fire Risk to Brazil Indian Park

9/1/98--Brazil Flies in Fireman to Protect Indigenous Land

9/1/98--Devastating Fires Roar Closer to Xingu National Park

8/31/98--Red Alert Declared as Fires Threaten Xingu National Park

8/30/98--Brazil Fires Raging Toward Major Nature Park

8/20/98--Brazil President: Open Season on Eco-Crimes

8/13/98--10-Year Moratorium Declared on Environmental Law Enforcement

8/6/98--Victory for Guarani-Kaiowa Community of Potrero Guacu

8/4/98--Brazil Task Force to Assess Atlantic Rainforest Deforestation

8/1/98--Two-Year Ban Placed on Mahogany Logging in the Amazon

7/29/98--Brazil Renews Mahogany Logging Ban To Help Halt Amazon Destruction

7/28/98--Brazil Bans Amazon Mahogany Logging for Two Years

7/28/98--Misleading False Information about Mahogany Logging Circulating

7/22/98--Guarani Indians Face Eviction from Ancestral Lands

7/20/98--The Aftermath of the Roraima Fires that Threatened the Yanomani

7/19/98--Brazilian Environmental Plan Labeled "Insufficient"

7/8/98--Brazil Launches Plan to Prevent and Put Out Amazon Fires

7/5/98--Brazil Army to Research Unknown Amazon Viruses

7/2/98--New Monkey Found in Brazil Is Further Proof for Rainforest Preservation

7/2/98--NGO's Question Campaign to Protect 10% of Amazon from Human Presence

6/24/98--Brazil Pulls Out of Destructive Project in Wetlands

6/22/98--Renewed Pressure on Brazil Mahogany Traders by Friends of the Earth

6/18/98--Environment Institute Says Fire Destroyed Less Amazon Than Feared

6/17/98--Tropical Brazil Struggles to Woo Tourists

6/13/98--Experts Speculate on Newly Reported Amazonian Tribe Status

6/11/98--New Indigenous Tribe Found In Rainforest Near Peru Border

6/11/98--Many Dangers Facing Native Populations

6/8/98--New Indigenous Tribe Found in the Amazon

5/29/98--The Last of Brazil's Pharaonic Dam Boondoggles

5/29/98--Rubber Tappers Urge World Bank to Review Amazon Plan

5/20/98--Indigenous Chief Campaigning for Land Rights Murdered

5/10/98--Civilization Destroying Nature's Pharmacy

5/3/98--Skeptics Wary of Amazon Initiative

5/1/98--World Bank Project Triples Protected Amazon Forest Areas

4/30/98--Ray of Hope for Rainforest as Brazil Protects Amazon

4/30/98--Brazil Announces Amazon Protection Plan

4/30/98--62 Million Acres in The Amazon to Be Protected

4/29/98--Thousands of Square Miles of Forest are Lost every Year

4/29/98--Protected Forest Area Triples in Amazon

4/29/98--Government Announces First Steps Towards Forest for Life Campaign

4/29/98--Brazil to Protect Large Tracts of Amazon Rainforest

4/29/98--Brazil Launches Ambitious Plan to Save Rain Forest

4/20/98--Anti-Indigenous Agreement Forced Through In Brazil

4/11/98--Rains Quench Amazon Fires

4/9/98--Lawmaker's Report Raps Brazilian Government on Forest Fires

4/9/98--Brazil Races to Stop New Amazon Fires

4/8/98--Months of Fires Destroyed Millions of Priceless Acres in the Amazon

4/7/98--Two Towns Fight for Road Closed for Wildlife Park

4/7/98--Drought, Fire Bring Food Shortage to Indigenous Peoples in North

4/5/98--New Threat to Brazilian Rain Forest

4/3/98--After the Fires, Yanomani Indians Face Malaria

4/3/98--Brazil Wrestles with Amazon Fears as Fires Rage on

4/2/98--Brazil Begins to Count Toll of Amazon Fires

4/1/98--Rains in Drought Stricken Roraima Quench Fires

4/1/98--Rain Douses Amazon Fires, Fight Still Continues

3/31/98--United Nations Team Assesses How Big Amazon Fires Were

3/31/98--Rains Fall in Burning Amazon

3/31/98--Rain Helps Northern Amazon Fires

3/31/98--Rains Fall on Burning Amazon after Shamans' Ritual

3/30/98--Watching Helplessly As Rain Forest Burns

3/30/98--United Nations Plans Aid for Amazon Firefighting

3/29/98--Shamans Called in to Fight Amazon Blaze

3/28/98--Brazil Fears Widespread Fires in Amazon Rainforest

3/27/98--Emergency Amazon Fires Taskforce Created

3/26/98--Biopirates Attacking the Forest, Priest Assaulted During Land Occupation

3/26/98--Major Fire Tragedy in Roraima, Brazil

3/25/98--United Nations Team to Help Fight Amazon Fires

3/24/98--Government Accepts United Nations Help to Fight Amazon Fires

3/23/98--Smoke Grounds Helicopters Fighting Amazon Forest Fire

3/23/98--Authorities Send More Personnel to Fight Fires

3/22/98--Brazil Seeks to Limit Settler Damage to Rainforest

3/21/98--Reinforcements Enter Battle against Amazon Fires

3/20/98--Environmentalists React to Brazilian Rejection of Waterway Plan

3/20/98--Glossy Approach Hides Environmental Disaster

3/20/98--Campaign in Support of the Tupinikim and Guarani of Espirito Santo

3/19/98--Yanomami's Turn to Shamans to Stop Amazon Fires

3/18/98--Fire Threatens Forest and Yanomami Villages

3/18/98--Authorities Hope for Rain to Put out Amazon Fires

3/18/98--Amazon Fires Rage on as Officials Hammer out Plan

3/17/98--Fires Advance into Amazon, Despite Efforts to Check the Flames

3/16/98--Fire in Amazon Reaches Yanomani Reservation

3/16/98--Amazon Fire Risk Rises Due to Logging, Farmers

3/16/98--Amazon Fires Advance Out of Control

3/15/98--Firefighters Struggle to Contain Amazon Blaze

3/14/98--Yanomani Chief Seeks Help from Raging Amazon Fires

3/14/98--Lifting Peasants Out of Poverty

3/14/98--Officials Plan to Send Helicopters to Battle Amazon Fires

3/14/98--Brazilian Government Plan Aimed at Halting Amazon Devastation

3/14/98--Yanomami Chief Seeks Help from Raging Amazon Fires

3/13/98--Roraima Government Calls in Helicopters to Fight Amazon Fires

3/10/98--Indians at Risk as Fires Rage in Brazil

3/10/98--Farmers Invade Famed Brazilian National Park

3/6/98--Court Decides Not to Press Murder Charges Against Burned Man

3/1/98--Worst Fire in the History of Amazon Disaster for the Yanomani

2/27/98--Yanomami Indians Exposure to Modern Life Deadly

2/27/98--Yanomani See Life after Gold-Rush

2/26/98--Yanomani Warn against Mining, Rival Groups Emerge in Land Struggle

2/23/98--Deforestation Rampant in Amazon as Industrial Logging Takes Off

2/20/98--Farmers Invade Famed National Park

2/17/98--Brazil Introduces New Environmental Legislation

2/11/98--President Expected to Sign Bill Protecting Rain Forest

2/11/98--High Indigenous Infant Mortality Rate amongst the Yanomani

2/5/98--Alarming Increase in Deforestation Figures

2/5/98--Brazil Allows Sustainable Logging by Indigenous

2/3/98--Court Suspends Government Support for the Hidrovia Project

2/3/98--President Threatens Veto of Environmental Law

2/3/98--Brazil President Threatens Veto of Environmental Law

2/3/98--Seven New National Forests Will Foster Sustainable Logging

1/31/98--Brazil Suspends New Industrial Logging in the Amazonas State

1/29/98--New Environmental Crimes Bill Approved

1/28/98--Environmentalists put Brazil under Fire for Destruction of Amazon

1/28/98--Amazon Rain Forest Disappearing Fast

1/28/98--New Push for Ecotourism May Help to Save Amazon Rainforest

1/27/98--Deforestation in Amazon is Worst Ever

1/27/98--Greens Slam Government for Not Protecting Amazon Forest

1/27/98--Highway Poses a New Threat to Serra Cafezal Atlantic Rainforest

1/27/98--Joint Environmental Statement about Amazon Deforestation Figures

1/27/98--Rainforest Loss Figures Indicate Great Natural Catastrophe

1/26/98--Record Amazonian Deforestation during Cardoso Administration

1/26/98--Shock New Figures Show Worst Loss of Rainforest Ever

1/26/98--Ravaging of the Amazon Continues Survey Shows

1/26/98--Environmentalists Fear High Levels of Deforestation in Amazon

1/26/98--Amazon Destruction Intensifies

1/22/98--Brazil Quiet as Evidence of Amazon's Demise Mounts

1/21/98--Three More Indigenous Suicides in State of Mato Grosso

1/18/98--Amazon Indigenous Groups Oppose Infrastructure Projects

1/15/98--Reasons for Suicide amongst the Guarani-Kaiowa Analyzed

1/10/98--Scientists Say Amazon Trees May be up to 1,400 Years Old

1/10/98--Forest Fragmentation May Worsen Global Warming

1/10/98--Juma Tribe Slips Towards Extinction in Amazon Forest

1/2/98--Primatologist Discovers Unknown Monkeys in the Amazon Forest

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