Nature
Agribusiness Lobby Strips Brazil of a Puerto Rico of Conservation Areas
With Brazil in political turmoil, the bancada ruralista agribusiness lobby that dominates Congress has ...
Brazil’s Former Minister Wants Farmers and Environmentalists United to Save the Amazon
Former Brazilian Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira has made an impassioned plea for a “new ...
Norway Threatens to Cut Aid If Brazil Can’t Stop Amazon’s Deforestation
Oil-rich Norway, which in many parts of the world emerged as the champion of ...
Rio Carnaval Parade Celebrating the Amazon Indians Leaves Big Farm Livid
Rio’s Carnaval festivities were threatened this year by a spat pitting a well-known parade ...
Brazil Is Losing Conservation Reserves. Mining Interests Seem to Be Behind the Move
New legislation in Brazil has been proposed to reduce or eliminate several Amazon conservation ...
Roads, Railways, Waterways, Dams: an Elaborate Plan to Kill the Amazon
The Amazon’s rivers once were sufficient for commerce, now international commodities traders want to ...
Roaming the Brazilian Amazon in Search of the Flying Monkey
The saki, or “flying monkey,” a mid-sized South American primate, gets its nickname from ...
A Race to Preserve Brazil’s Newly-Discovered Amazon Reef
The first pictures of a huge coral reef system discovered in the Amazon last ...
For Brazilian Indians the Bad from Rousseff’s Era Has Become Worse
In addition to being a politician and a constitutionalist lawyer, President Michel Temer is ...
Defying Loggers, Brazil’s Amazon People Create Exemplary Green Communities
Established 18 years ago in a location that stretches over the municipalities of Santarém ...
