As the World Heats Up, Cities Work to Cool Down in Brazil and Elsewhere
Cities are especially vulnerable to extreme heat — and increasingly experience days when the sidewalks seem to cook like a stove and it’s a struggle to sleep at night. Densely built urban areas, with...
View ArticleSurge in Malaria Among the Amazon Yanomamis Due to Illegal Mining
Gold prices are at an all-time high, and we are very worried. As disease ecologists, it’s not the economic instability that concerns us, but the fact that a surge in gold mining could have a...
View ArticleTech Meets Sustainability: The Global South’s Green Leap
The world’s environmental challenges don’t need visas – they cross borders freely. Luckily, so do solutions. And right now, some of the most exciting ones are coming from the Global South, where young...
View ArticleBrazil Puts Leadership on Stage in New York Ahead of Cop30
A preview of major topics to be discussed at COP30 takes place later this month in New York City. As global leaders prepare for the world’s most important climate conference, which will be held this...
View ArticleGermany Has Eliminated All of Its Nuclear Power Plants. But Its Nuclear...
On June 27, 1975, Germany and Brazil signed a treaty on cooperation in the field of nuclear energy. Despite Germany’s nuclear phase out, it still applies today. The agreement on the peaceful uses of...
View ArticleLuxury Leather Goods from Europe Are Contributing to Deforestation in Brazil
Designer brands such as Coach, Fendi, and Hugo Boss have been listed as buyers of raw materials sourced from destroyed forests in Pará, the northern Brazilian state set to host the UN Climate...
View ArticleThe Role of the Paiter-Suruí Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon in the...
The Paiter-Suruí people have a culture deeply rooted in their land: the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land (TISS), on the border of Rondônia and Mato Grosso in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon. Known as...
View ArticleIn Becoming the World’s Farm, Brazil Is Depriving Itself of Water
Home to the largest river in the world by volume, the Amazon, Brazil holds about 12% of global freshwater reserves. As a result, many Brazilians have long run with the narrative that their water is...
View ArticleThe Whole World Wants the Amazon Protected. But Who Is Going to Pay for This?
When the Amazon burns it has an impact far beyond its own boundariesHolly Young While deforestation rates fell by nearly 50% in 2023, the Amazon continues to battle critical threats. In recent months,...
View ArticleArsonists Set Brazil’s fields, Amazon and Pantanal Ablaze
Over the last week, some 2,700 fires have ripped through Brazil’s southern São Paulo state. More than 40 communities were on high alert, with the state capital and other cities shrouded in heavy, gray...
View ArticleAmazon Rivers Running Dry As Droughts Worsen, They Pave Roads and...
Behind a narrow border of trees, a crop duster sprays clouds of agrochemicals onto the vast soy fields stretching out on both sides of the BR-319 highway that cuts deep into Brazil’s Amazon rainforest....
View ArticleAs Bad as Floods Are in the South of Brazil, New Climate Models Show They...
A mighty river is flowing out of the Amazon rainforest, and it’s not the one you’re thinking of. In the first kilometre above the forest canopy, a “flying river” is transporting moisture evaporated...
View ArticleWorst Flood in 80 Years Leaves 85 Dead and 130 Missing After Environmental...
Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, has been severely affected by the heaviest rainfall in eight decades. The storms have caused significant flooding, numerous fatalities, and the...
View ArticleThese Scientists in Brazil Chase Snakes for their Venom in Order to Save the...
Brazil records an average of 29,000 snakebites a year, leading to around 130 deaths. And it is in the Amazon that the greatest number of cases occur. This region is home to 38 of the 75 species of...
View ArticleBoosted During the Bolsonaro Era, the Illegal Gold Trade in Brazil Is Still...
2023 was a game-changer for the Brazilian gold industry. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office as president with the promise to put Brazil’s environmental policy back on track again after four years of...
View ArticleTop Fashion Brands Like H&M and Zara Blamed for Contributing to Brazil’s...
Clothing factories that supply H&M and Zara are buying cotton linked to environmental destruction and land-grabbing in Brazil’s Cerrado – a biodiversity hotspot where deforestation is soaring,...
View ArticleReading the Burned Leaves of the Amazon Forest: There’s Crisis in the Future
The Amazon is battling record early-year fires, fueling fears of a worse climate crisis to come as blazes kill vegetation that is key to absorbing planet-warming carbon dioxide. Fanned by drought, high...
View ArticleBrazil’s Killer Heat More Lethal to Blacks, Women and Older People
“The heat at night was too much; we couldn’t sleep,” says Evanice Auxiliadora da Silva, a resident of Cuiabá, the capital of the state of Mato Grosso in west-central Brazil, as she recalls the numerous...
View ArticleDiscovery of new species of giant anaconda, the world’s biggest snake, in the...
The green anaconda has long been considered one of the Amazon’s most formidable and mysterious animals. Our new research upends scientific understanding of this magnificent creature, revealing it is...
View ArticleThe 50-year-old Heroic Fight of Brazil’s Kapinawá Indigenous People Against...
In the Brazilian backlands, the jurema is a most willful tree: When you think it’s dead, it sprouts again. You can cut it, tear it down, burn it; at the first thunderstorm, its leaves tear through the...
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