Environment
Builders of Railroad in Brazil Call It Progress. The Price Is Too High Say Locals
It happened eight years ago: Elicarlos Ferreira da Silva and his family were returning ...
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Will See More Changes in Five Decades than in the Last 21,000 Years
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. Roughly ...
Hunted for Centuries and Almost Extinct the Right Whale Is Making a Comeback in Brazil
Whale season started this month on the Brazilian coast and is expected to last ...
Getting Rid of President Bolsonaro Won’t Solve the Deforestation Problem in the Amazon
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon made global headlines in 2019, thanks to massive wildfires ...
The Solution to Brazil’s Deforestation: Fixing the Country’s Economy
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro participated in a virtual climate summit convened by the U.S. ...
I’m a Munduruku and I See First Hand Our Amazon World Crumbling
We see how our forests are turning into large mud pools. We see how ...
The Military Operation Green Brazil in the Amazon Is Ending. The Order Now Is Results-Based Environmentalism
A military operation against environmental violations in the Brazilian Amazon is coming to a ...
Amazon Indians Living 10,000 Years in Area Want a Say in New Grainway Train Project
A controversial freight railway line that would cut through Indigenous lands in the Brazilian ...
They Call Themselves Green, But Palm Oil in the Amazon Means Deforestation and Human Rights Violations
Guided by an Indigenous leader, we drove down dusty roads in the Turé-Mariquita Indigenous ...
Only Now the World Is Starting to Learn How Vital Is Brazil’s Cerrado to Our Planet
On May 6, 2015, the Brazilian government officially recognized a special economic region, one ...
