Tag: Amazon

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Boosted During the Bolsonaro Era, the Illegal Gold Trade in Brazil Is Still Alive

2023 was a game-changer for the Brazilian gold industry. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ...

Firefighter works to control fire in the Brazilian Amazon

Reading the Burned Leaves of the Amazon Forest: There’s Crisis in the Future

The Amazon is battling record early-year fires, fueling fears of a worse climate crisis ...

Rendering of an oil derrick in the rainforest. AI-generated.

Brazilian Hypocrisy: Green Talk and Brown Actions

Brazil’s massive 13 December 2023 auction of oil and gas drilling rights betrays a ...

Community of Catalão suffers from drought in Amazonas - Photo: Gato Júnior/Rede Amazônica

Amazon Drought Becomes Time Bomb for Pandemic Diseases

Home to the greatest biodiversity on the planet, the Amazon is also a ticking ...

American biologist Philip Martin Fearnside

The Future of the World Is at Stake in Belém, Brazil

Amazon and climate scientists agree: The largest rainforest area in the world is on ...

Indigenous people show a deforested area inside the Amazon rainforest REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Brazil’s Anti-green Ultra-conservative Legislature Is a Threat to the Amazon

Brazil’s stewardship of the world’s largest tropical forest has long ignited acrimony. If frontier ...

An indigenous man participates in a modeling exercise run by Conexsus in Mato Grosso, Brazil - Conexsus/Handout

Rich in Forests, Brazil Is Trying to Build a Strong Bioeconomy

Alongside the Brazilian Amazon’s vast soy and cattle ranching economy – a major driver ...

Yanomami mother takes child to health center. Fernando Frazão / ABr

The Worst Is Over. Yanomami Kids Overcoming Severe Malnutrition

Fourteen Yanomami children diagnosed with severe malnutrition and who are being monitored by the ...