Brazil
Drastic effects of COVID in Manaus, Brazil: No oxygen, patients transferred, curfew
January 19, 2021This week the capital of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, broke the record for new hospitalizations and burials.
Read moreGlobal demand for meat propels deforestation in Brazil, says report
January 19, 2021The growing world consumption of meat and the actions of the current government are the main ingredients of a recipe leading to the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest.
Read moreBrazilian state of Amazonas enters the most serious phase of COVID-19
January 14, 2021The coronavirus pandemic in Amazonas state has reached the highest level in Brazil's color-coded severity rankings system.
Read moreNew Amazonian Atlas reveals that a third of the rainforest is threatened
December 23, 2020Julia Jacomini from the Amazonian Network of Socioenvironmental Information (RAISG) puts the latest data about the rainforest into perspective.
Read moreDavi Kopenawa, Yanomami leader and shaman, elected to Brazilian Academy of Sciences
December 21, 2020From December 2018 to April 2019, the Yanomami people were the subject of an extraordinary exhibition in São Paulo, The Yanomami Struggle, by photographer Claudia Andujar and the Moreira Sales Institute [IMS] which presented the Yanomamis’...
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