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    Brazil's President at the launch of the National Green Growth Program in Brasília, EPA-EFE/Joedson Alves

    Brazil Vows to Stop Deforestation. But Can You Trust President Bolsonaro?

    On the second day of COP26 – the UN climate negotiations in Glasgow – ...

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    Marcus Gomes and George Ferns
    The environmental license for the Grainway project could come soon. Image courtesy of the Brazilian National Land Transportation Agency (ANTT).

    Amazon Indians Living 10,000 Years in Area Want a Say in New Grainway Train Project

    A controversial freight railway line that would cut through Indigenous lands in the Brazilian ...

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    Jennifer Ann Thomas
    Guaraná fruit. From gene sequencing to chocolate, Brazil's Amazon looks for a new development model

    Brazil’s Amazon Needs New Development Model With Less Cattle and Soy and More Use of Biodiversity

    President Jair Bolsonaro’s push to develop the Amazon through expanded mining and farming has ...

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    Fabio Zuker
    The Amazon rainforest meets soybean fields in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Paralaxis/Shutterstock

    The Future of Brazil’s Amazon Depends on What You Eat Every Day

    Soy may have a pretty innocuous reputation thanks to its association with vegan food ...

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    Angela Guerrero and Malika Virah-Sawmy
    Women strip away the outer husk of the babassu palm nut. Image by Peter Caton courtesy of ISPN

    Big Agribusiness Threatens Livelihood of 400.000 Coconut Breakers in Brazil’s Cerrado

    Every September for half a century, Maria Antônia Trindade Mendes has started the babassu ...

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    Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo
    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
    Tapajós National Forest set on fire, which is the cheapest way to get rid of the trees

    It Doesn’t Change: For 500 Years, the Elite Has Been Dilapidating Brazil’s Natural Riches

    Brazil. The fifth largest country in the world. Besides housing the world’s largest rainforest ...

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    Giem Guimarães
    Soy plant in the Amazon

    Presented as Salvation of the Rainforest, the Amazon Soy Moratorium Is More Greenwash and Propaganda

    At the turn of the 21st century, a juggernaut of expanding soy production moved ...

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    Sue Branford and Maurício Torres

    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 ...

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    Sue Branford and Maurício Torres

    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 ...

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    Sue Branford and Maurício Torres