Environment
Top Fashion Brands Like H&M and Zara Blamed for Contributing to Brazil’s Deforestation
Clothing factories that supply H&M and Zara are buying cotton linked to environmental destruction ...
Reading the Burned Leaves of the Amazon Forest: There’s Crisis in the Future
The Amazon is battling record early-year fires, fueling fears of a worse climate crisis ...
Brazil’s Killer Heat More Lethal to Blacks, Women and Older People
“The heat at night was too much; we couldn’t sleep,” says Evanice Auxiliadora da ...
Discovery of new species of giant anaconda, the world’s biggest snake, in the Amazon, shocks scientists
The green anaconda has long been considered one of the Amazon’s most formidable and ...
The 50-year-old Heroic Fight of Brazil’s Kapinawá Indigenous People Against Land-grabbers
In the Brazilian backlands, the jurema is a most willful tree: When you think ...
Threat of Extinction to Brazilian Primates Is Also a Threat to the Forest
We tend to think of debt as purely financial, but we can also reap ...
Brazilian Hypocrisy: Green Talk and Brown Actions
Brazil’s massive 13 December 2023 auction of oil and gas drilling rights betrays a ...
Activists Mad at Lula and Brazil for Over 600 Oil Concessions After All Promises at COP28
Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva urged countries to “work towards an economy ...
Bluewashing in Brazil: How an Ecotourism Project Is Expelling Indigenous Peoples from Their Land
When the notion of “ecotourism” was introduced in the late 1970s, it was intended ...
Amazon Drought Can Turn the Forest into a Savannah
A severe drought in Brazil’s Amazon has damaged the forest ecosystem, brought chaos for ...
