Environment
World’s Largest Tropical Wetland, the Brazilian Pantanal, Being Converted into Ashes
Fires are raging in the wetlands of west-central Brazil, leaving behind a vast swath ...
The More Amazon Poor Farmers Burn the Forest the More They Need to Burn It
The 2019 fires in the Brazilian Amazon were the result of an alarming surge ...
While the World Deals with the Pandemic, Brazil Is Destroying the Amazon at a Fast Pace
The Amazon fires of 2019 drove the greatest single year loss of Brazilian forest ...
The Price of Fighting Land-grabbing in the Amazon Can Be Your Life
Maria Marcia Elpidia de Melo hasn’t seen her son Elmiro for more than six ...
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 ...