Environment
Getting Rid of President Bolsonaro Won’t Solve the Deforestation Problem in the Amazon
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon made global headlines in 2019, thanks to massive wildfires ...
The Solution to Brazil’s Deforestation: Fixing the Country’s Economy
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro participated in a virtual climate summit convened by the U.S. ...
I’m a Munduruku and I See First Hand Our Amazon World Crumbling
We see how our forests are turning into large mud pools. We see how ...
The Military Operation Green Brazil in the Amazon Is Ending. The Order Now Is Results-Based Environmentalism
A military operation against environmental violations in the Brazilian Amazon is coming to a ...
Amazon Indians Living 10,000 Years in Area Want a Say in New Grainway Train Project
A controversial freight railway line that would cut through Indigenous lands in the Brazilian ...
They Call Themselves Green, But Palm Oil in the Amazon Means Deforestation and Human Rights Violations
Guided by an Indigenous leader, we drove down dusty roads in the Turé-Mariquita Indigenous ...
Only Now the World Is Starting to Learn How Vital Is Brazil’s Cerrado to Our Planet
On May 6, 2015, the Brazilian government officially recognized a special economic region, one ...
Why Killings of Environmentalists and Indians Keep Increasing in Brazil: Almost Certain Impunity
When Jair Bolsonaro took office as president of Brazil at the start of 2019, ...
Survival of Brazil’s Flower-gatherers, a 300-year-old Activity, Threatened by Mining and State
“The mountain range is our soil, our life,” affirms Maria de Fátima Alves, head ...
Brazil’s Amazon Needs New Development Model With Less Cattle and Soy and More Use of Biodiversity
President Jair Bolsonaro’s push to develop the Amazon through expanded mining and farming has ...
