Tag: Amazon
Resurgence of Covid-19 in Brazil’s Amazon Dashes Hopes of Herd Immunity
The largest city in Brazil’s Amazon has closed bars and river beaches to contain ...
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 ...
Amazon Indians’ Doctor with Coronavirus Brings Fear of an Extermination
A doctor working with the largest tribe in the Amazon has tested positive for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Far Right Won in Brazil. Now Comes the Resistance.
In his acceptance speech, Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro said he will “change the destiny ...
Brazil Logging Mafia Kills Another Guardian of the Amazon
A leader of an Amazon tribe acclaimed for its environmental defenders has been killed, ...
