Environment
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 ...
The Future of Brazil’s Amazon Depends on What You Eat Every Day
Soy may have a pretty innocuous reputation thanks to its association with vegan food ...
Amazon Deforestation to Endanger Hydropower and Water Supply in Brazil’s Big Cities
Climate change will increase the burdens on Brazil’s armed forces and endanger the country’s ...
Brazil President Not Happy with Biden, Threatens a War Against the US Over the Amazon
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a close ally of Republican President Donald Trump and one ...
Five Years After Brazil’s Mariana Dam Tragedy Very Little Reparation Has Been Done
Five years after the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam, in the town of ...
Over 3,000 Brazilian Animal and Plant Species Are Endangered or Vulnerable to Extinction
Brazil has 3,229 animal and plant species under threat — 19.8 percent of the ...
Here Starts the End of Brazil’s Amazon Forest. It’s Called BR-319 Highway
The BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) Highway was built in the early 1970s by Brazil’s military ...
One Year After Guardian of the Forest’s Murder Nothing Has Changed in the Brazilian Amazon
Illegal loggers are operating unchecked in Brazil’s Amazon as coronavirus rages despite government vows ...
