Tag: Amazon
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 ...
Rio Carnaval Parade Celebrating the Amazon Indians Leaves Big Farm Livid
Rio’s Carnaval festivities were threatened this year by a spat pitting a well-known parade ...
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 ...
A Race to Preserve Brazil’s Newly-Discovered Amazon Reef
The first pictures of a huge coral reef system discovered in the Amazon last ...
35,000 Troops Guard Brazil’s Frontiers. Most Are in the Amazon
Drug seizures are not infrequent in Brazil’s Amazon region. In early January alone, the ...
Defying Loggers, Brazil’s Amazon People Create Exemplary Green Communities
Established 18 years ago in a location that stretches over the municipalities of Santarém ...
