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    The Military Operation Green Brazil in the Amazon Is Ending. The Order Now Is Results-Based Environmentalism

    A military operation against environmental violations in the Brazilian Amazon is coming to a ...

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    Caio de Freitas Paes
    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
    A memorial in honor of Dorothy Stang, a U.S.-born nun killed 15 years ago. Crosses represent murdered and threatened rural workers. Image by Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace.

    Why Killings of Environmentalists and Indians Keep Increasing in Brazil: Almost Certain Impunity

    When Jair Bolsonaro took office as president of Brazil at the start of 2019, ...

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    Daniel Camargos
    The BR-319 is now passable in the dry season due to a "maintenance" program begun in 2016 - Photo: P.M. Fearnside.

    Here Starts the End of Brazil’s Amazon Forest. It’s Called BR-319 Highway

    The BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) Highway was built in the early 1970s by Brazil’s military ...

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    Philip M. Fearnside
    Commodities on the move on the completed southern section of the BR-163 Highway - Roosevelt Pinheiro / Agência Brasil

    For the Military, the Brazilian Indian Is a Savage and an Obstacle to Progress

    The media portrayal of Brazil’s annual fire season — which in 2020 is trending ...

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    Peter Speetjens