Environment
Yellow Fever Is Wiping Out Brazil’s Howler Monkeys
The deadly yellow fever — an infectious disease caused by a mosquito-borne virus — ...
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 ...
Brazil Cuts Poverty, But Human Rights Are Still a Serious Problem
Virtually all of the 169 recommendations made to Brazil by the UN Human Rights ...
Once Expelled from Belo Monte, Brazil’s River People Are Back to Their Old Spot
All is not quiet on Brazil’s western frontier. Families that were displaced from their ...
Cattle Industry Is Big Driver of Amazon Deforestation, But Is Doing Little to Change This
In almost every aisle of the grocery store, you can find products from the ...
Presented as Salvation of the Rainforest, the Amazon Soy Moratorium Is More Greenwash and Propaganda
At the turn of the 21st century, a juggernaut of expanding soy production moved ...
Rio Carnaval Gets Serious with Tragic Story of a Broken Dam
In 2015, the collapse of mining company Samarco’s dams at a mine in ...
Açaí, Brazil Nuts and Other Amazon Trees Are Only Abundant Thanks to Ancient Indians
Ancient indigenous peoples had a far more profound impact on the composition of the ...
By Planting Eucalyptus, Espírito Santo State in Brazil Is Creating an Immense Green Desert
The spread of desertification and increasing scarcity of water amid eucalyptus monocultures in the ...
