Environment
Worried About the Economy and Corruption Brazilians Have Been Neglecting the Amazon
It’s never easy to predict what will happen next in Brazil. A year ago, ...
Global Forest Watch Detecting Record Forest Loss in the Amazon
Brazil topped the list of the world’s most important Places to Watch for deforestation, ...
Don’t Expect Brazil’s Cerrado Forest to Be Saved by the Corporate World
To the south of the Amazon basin lies a huge savannah known as the ...
Marina Silva Announces She’s Running for the Fourth Time for President of Brazil
Marina Silva, Brazil’s third most popular candidate in the past three presidential elections, has ...
New Inventory Lowers the Number of Amazonian Trees Species from 16,200 to 6,700
Scientists report that the Amazon region has more than 6,700 species of native trees, ...
Brazil’s Thirst for Hydropower Is Killing the Wildlife-rich Pantanal
The Pantanal in central South America may not be as globally famous as the ...
Mining Is Responsible for 10 Percent of Deforestation in the Amazon
Nearly ten percent of all the deforestation occurring in the Brazilian Amazon between 2005 ...
In an Act of Revenge, Brazilian Gold Miners Set Government Buildings Ablaze
Hundreds of armed men have set fire to environmental agency buildings in Brazil’s Amazon ...
Cattle Ranchers in the Amazon Could Earn More Farming. But They Wouldn’t Be Happy
Picture the Brazilian Amazon. You probably don’t see a lot of cows in that ...
Benefits and Risks of Legal Wildlife Trade in the Amazon
The multimillion-dollar legal wildlife trade in species originating from Amazonian countries has been analyzed ...
