Environment
The Revocation of Brazil’s Pro-Deforestation Decree Has No Teeth
On August 23, 2017, Brazil’s president Michel Temer issued a decree revoking the RENCA ...
Zero Deforestation Is the Only Answer in this Side of the Amazon
Perched at the easternmost edge of the Amazon rainforest is Maranhão, one of Brazil’s ...
Want Sustainable Development for the Amazon? Let the Indians Take Care of It
The Brazilian government has earmarked a vast tract of Amazonian land for mining. The ...
Brazil President Spending Billions in Amendments and Decrees to Hang Onto the Presidency
What does it cost to hang onto the office of President? In Brazil, President ...
Brazil Ends Natural Reserve the Size of Norway and Is Accused of Crime Against the Amazon
A decree from President Michel Temer abolished the protected status of the National Reserve ...
China Cleans Air at Home While Exporting Pollution to Brazil and Elsewhere
While China moves forward with its national policy to reduce coal consumption and increase ...
The Gold Rush in the Amazon Is Poisoning Fish and People with Mercury
Holding a plastic bottle of toxic mercury with his bare hands on an illegal ...
Under Pressure to Curb Deforestation, Brazil Sends Mixed Message to the World
Last week saw a busy, but contradictory, stream of actions likely to impact Amazonian ...
Eating Less Beef Seems to Be the Only Way to End Amazonian Deforestation
Beef production has become a major driver of tropical deforestation, responsible for as much ...
Brazil’s People and Environment Pay Dearly for the Country’s Energy-hungry Mining Projects
In the late 1970s, Raimunda Gomes da Silva and her husband, João Pereira da ...