Environment
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 ...
Amazon Threatened by Presidential Election. Brazil Might Follow Trump Out of Paris Agreement
Almost every Brazilian (91 percent) wants to get closer to nature, while 27 percent ...
Brazil Logging Mafia Kills Another Guardian of the Amazon
A leader of an Amazon tribe acclaimed for its environmental defenders has been killed, ...
