Environment
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 ...
Inspired by Pope Francis, Brazilian Bishops Call on Catholics to Protect the Environment
With the theme “Fraternity – Brazilian Biomes and the Defense of Life,” the National ...
The Rush to Save a Brazilian Town Dying of Thirst
The shrunken carcasses of cows lie in scorched fields outside the city of Campina ...
Two Faces of an Amazon Family: Ruthless Speculator Father, Eco Dreamer Daughter
The father, Ariosto da Riva, was a notorious land speculator; his daughter, Vitória da ...
End of a Myth: Hydropower Doesn’t Mean Green Energy
From the Amazon Basin to boreal forests, and from the Mekong to the Himalayan ...
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 ...
China’s Appetite for Soy Is Turning Brazil’s Amazon into a Shantytown
Over the last 40 years, the north of the state of Mato Grosso has ...
Brazil: The Day the Munduruku Found Out the Police Were Not Their Friend
The Tapajós River Basin lies at the heart of the Amazon, and at the ...
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 ...