Environment
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 ...
No Lesson Learned One Year after Brazil’s Catastrophic Dam Collapse with 270 Deaths
On Friday, January 25, 2019, most of Helena Taliberti’s family was swept away within ...
US$ 30 Bi: The Cost to Replace the 8.4 Million Soccer Fields of Deforested Amazon Lost in Last Decade
This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International ...
Big Agribusiness Threatens Livelihood of 400.000 Coconut Breakers in Brazil’s Cerrado
Every September for half a century, Maria Antônia Trindade Mendes has started the babassu ...
How Trump and Bolsonaro are Accelerating Climate Change and Planetary Apocalpyse
The Amazon is burning. Once more, as in the 1990s, an “arc of fire” ...
Worried About Brazil Amazon’s Fires? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
The number of fires this year in the Amazon is the highest since 2010, ...
Under President Bolsonaro, Amazon Deforestation Up 90%
Clear cutting in the rainforest has gone up 88% in June compared to the ...
34 Dead and 300 Missing After Another Dam Collapses in Brazil
Brazilian rescuers were searching for some 300 missing people after a dam burst at ...
Brazil Does a U-turn on Environmental Policy and Sides with Big Farmers
Environmental issues have figured prominently in Brazil as of late, and the Brazilian Forest ...
