Norway Threatens to Cut Aid If Brazil Can´t Stop Amazon´s Deforestation
(WorldNews Norway)

Oil-rich Norway, which in many parts of the world emerged as the champion of wildlife preservation, is threatening to cut its support of the Amazon rainforest amid Brazil’s defiant underperformance and wide-spreading deforestation. Norwegian Climate and Environment Minister Vidar Helgesen is now in Brazil and the atmosphere of his visit is far from relaxed, for it’s not a courtesy visit that brought him to Rio, but rather bad news. Over the past year, deforestation of the Amazon basin has increased dramatically, by...