Exploiting Brazil’s biodiversity: who’s profiting from this biopiracy?
At the COP16 UN biodiversity summit in Colombia, the role of genetic heritage in shaping Brazil's bioeconomy was a central ...
Tag: Brazil
Lula’s ambitious G20 tax agenda underscores need for internal reform in Brazil
With Brazil hosting the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro between 18-19 November, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has ...
BR-319: a highway to climate chaos in the heart of the Amazon
As Brazil prepares to host the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP30, the Brazilian government is sending a powerful ...
Brazil’s biofuel boom: green growth or greenwashing?
Brazil's push to expand biofuels is central to its strategy to "drive the decarbonisation agenda" and build a robust "bioeconomy," ...
Amazon Guardian Paulo Guajajara was my friend. Five years after his killing, I want justice.
Paulo Paulino Guajajara looks down and off to one side, the Amazon forest lush and dense behind him. His voice ...
Capitalist projects in Brazil’s Amazon send suicide rates soaring among Indigenous People
Content warning: this article contains references to suicide, which readers may find distressing. Suicide is a major global public health ...
EXPOSED: the NGOs that are complicit in the Amazon-wrecking BR-319 highway project in Brazil
The following investigation is by Monica Piccinini, Lucas Ferrante, and Philip Fearnside, and was originally published on 9 September, in ...
China has its eyes on Brazil – but will this burgeoning BRICS partnership prove damaging for the Amazon?
Over the past few decades, China's investment in Brazil's Amazon region has significantly grown and broadened, particularly in sectors like ...
Corporate interests are killing the Indigenous Kawahiva people – and Lula isn’t doing enough to stop them
An Indigenous tribe, the Kawahiva people, in the Brazilian Amazon was discovered 25 years ago. Now, Indigenous rights campaigners are ...
Tropical deforestation still surging, as ten football fields worth cleared every minute in 2023
On Thursday 4 April, researchers delivered more damning news on the biodiversity crisis. While Amazon deforestation rates have plummeted in ...
Belém’s environmental challenges: a glimpse into the COP30 host city
In the lead-up to hosting COP30 in 2025, Belém, the capital of Pará in northern Brazil, is confronted with a ...
The BR-319 highway: a scientist’s call to action for the Amazon and beyond
Lucas Ferrante, researcher with a PhD in ecology from Brazil’s National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), has conducted multiple scientific ...
Brazil’s Yanomami People are facing a catastrophe – despite Lula’s actions
Experts have warned that an acute health crisis is ravaging the Yanomami People in Brazil’s northern Amazon, one year on ...
Pantanal blaze: nature’s silent scream
Throughout this month, rampant fires engulfed the Pantanal in Brazil, one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands and home to ...
The BR-319 highway: the Amazon’s Trojan Horse
The Amazon drought in Brazil is unleashing a wave of environmental, health, economic, and social disruptions in the region. But ...
Brazil’s Yanomami People are facing another colonialist threat – this time from ultra processed food
The Yanomami are an Indigenous People of Brazil and Venezuela. The Brazilian state specifically and corporations have for decades violated ...
Brazil’s senate approves a controversial bill in a major setback for Indigenous land rights
Less than a week after celebrations of a key victory in Brazil's supreme court, the country experienced a major setback ...
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