Environment
Brazil Determined to Hand Monitoring of Amazon Deforestation and Fire to the Military
In a recent announcement, Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão defended the creation of a ...
Biden Ruffles Feathers in Brazil Threatening Country with Sanctions for Deforestation
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called on the world to offer Brazil US$ ...
The Radical Changes Fires Are Causing the Amazon Flora and Fauna
The number of fires burning in standing Amazon rainforest spiked dramatically in recent weeks, ...
Legendary Amazon Chief Raoni Calls Brazil President a Liar for Blaming Indians for Wildfires
Brazil’s Chief Raoni Metuktire, one of the most iconic defenders of the Amazon, condemned ...
The Dramatic Struggle to Save the Threatened Blue Macaw from Brazil’s Pantanal Fires
In the 1960s, Luiz de Figueiredo Barretto bought the São Francisco do Perigara farm, ...
Brazil’s Guardians of the Forest: a Story of Bravery and Blood
If we ask Olimpio Santos Guajajara when the Guardians of the Forest were founded, ...
World’s Largest Tropical Wetland, the Brazilian Pantanal, Being Converted into Ashes
Fires are raging in the wetlands of west-central Brazil, leaving behind a vast swath ...
The More Amazon Poor Farmers Burn the Forest the More They Need to Burn It
The 2019 fires in the Brazilian Amazon were the result of an alarming surge ...
While the World Deals with the Pandemic, Brazil Is Destroying the Amazon at a Fast Pace
The Amazon fires of 2019 drove the greatest single year loss of Brazilian forest ...
The Price of Fighting Land-grabbing in the Amazon Can Be Your Life
Maria Marcia Elpidia de Melo hasn’t seen her son Elmiro for more than six ...
