Tag: Amazon

Raoni, a 90-year-old chief of the Kayapo people known for traveling the world to raise awareness of threats to the Amazon, also slashed Bolsonaro's words

Legendary Amazon Chief Raoni Calls Brazil President a Liar for Blaming Indians for Wildfires

Brazil’s Chief Raoni Metuktire, one of the most iconic defenders of the Amazon, condemned ...

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People with Covid-10 being buried in collective graves

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 ...

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Anthony Boadle
Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro. Photo by Joedson Alves/EPA-EFE

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 ...

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Brian Garvey and Mauricio Torres
Pataxó Indian from the village Nao Xoha, in Minas Gerais state, Brazil - Washington Alves/Reuters

Amazon Indians’ Doctor with Coronavirus Brings Fear of an Extermination

A doctor working with the largest tribe in the Amazon has tested positive for ...

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Anthony Boadl
Burning the trees to raise cattle in the Brazilian Amazon

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 ...

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Peter Yeung
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Paralaxis/Shutterstock

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 ...

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Liberty Vittert
Two climate denying Presidents, growing demand for soy in China and deforestation in Brazil have created the perfect climate-change storm

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” ...

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Brazzil Magazine
Fires burning in the Amazon forest at the end of August 2019, in Porto Velho, Rondônia - Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace

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, ...

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Robert T. Walker
June alone saw the loss of 920 square kilometers of Brazil's Amazon forest

Under President Bolsonaro, Amazon Deforestation Up 90%

Clear cutting in the rainforest has gone up 88% in June compared to the ...

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Protesters in the streets against Bolsonaro. "Not him,"says the sign

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 ...

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Carlos Salvador Zepeda Castillo