Brazil

Drastic effects of COVID in Manaus, Brazil: No oxygen, patients transferred, curfew

January 19, 2021 By Jornal GGN

This week the capital of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, broke the record for new hospitalizations and burials.

Global demand for meat propels deforestation in Brazil, says report

January 19, 2021 By Gero Rueter And Marcio Damasceno

The 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.

Brazilian state of Amazonas enters the most serious phase of COVID-19

January 14, 2021 By Izabel Santos

The coronavirus pandemic in Amazonas state has reached the highest level in Brazil's color-coded severity rankings system.

New Amazonian Atlas reveals that a third of the rainforest is threatened

December 23, 2020 By Special to People’s World

Julia Jacomini from the Amazonian Network of Socioenvironmental Information (RAISG) puts the latest data about the rainforest into perspective.

Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami leader and shaman, elected to Brazilian Academy of Sciences

December 21, 2020 By Mônica Nunes

From 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’...