Tag: Amazon
A Floating Lodge in the Amazon Preserves Nature While Providing for the Locals
The Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve is approximately 600 km off of the Amazonas state ...
Indians, Satellites, Helicopters, Machine Guns: All Is Fair in the War to Defend the Amazon
When George Porto joined Brazil’s environment agency 13 years ago, the country didn’t have ...
Uncontacted Indians Lives Threatened by Amazon Fires in Brazil
Forest fires are raging in an indigenous territory on the edge of the Brazilian ...
Brazil Scraps a Dam in the Amazon. There Are Dozens of Others in the Works Though
After the environmental permitting for the São Luiz do Tapajós, Pará, hydropower dam project ...
“We Are Not Dying,” Answer Indigenous Peoples to Sensationalized Photo Expo
An Amazon Indian protested outside the exhibition of controversial photographer Jimmy Nelson’s work “Before ...
Global Warming to Be Monitored by Brazil Amazon’s Giant Tower
Construction has begun on a giant observation tower in the heart of the Amazon ...
Brazil Police Raid the Amazon Forest in Search of Invaders of Public Land
Brazil’s Federal Police (PF) agents went on a raid last week exercising 22 search ...
Brazil’s Yanomami Leader Gets Death Threats from Illegal Goldminers in the Amazon
Brazil’s Yanomami shaman and spokesperson Davi Kopenawa, who has led the struggle for the ...
In Brazil, Supermarkets Refuse to Sell Meat from Amazon-raised Cattle
In Brazil, the Brazilian Association of Supermarkets, the main group representing supermarkets in Brazil ...
Boiling point: A Survey of Hemispheric Water Policy
From the Texas Oil Boom to the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, petroleum was undoubtedly the ...