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Ending the “Time Limit” Thesis Will Protect the Climate
About 6,000 indigenous people from 173 different ethnicities, coming from all of Brazil’s states, camped on the Esplanada dos Ministérios – the Brazilian equivalent to Washington’s National Mall –...
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“Construction works on the BR-319 highway are politically motivated”
Built in the 1970s and abandoned in the following decade, the BR-319 highway is at the center of new controversies involving large constructions works in the Amazon. Its almost 900 kilometers connect...
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Risk to National Sovereignty in the Amazon Region is a Government Fallacy,...
Warlike discourse has replaced the protectionist mindset. Since the start of his term, President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) has spread, like fire, controversial statements about the risk of foreign invasion...
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Proposal to remove Mato Grosso from the Legal Amazon allows deforestation of...
A bill that wants to remove Mato Grosso from the limits of the Legal Amazon is generating a strong backlash among researchers, environmentalists, and NGOs. Bill 337, proposed in February this year by...
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“The Javari Valley shows us how the words of a president can lead to an...
The murders of the indigenous defender Bruno Pereira and the British journalist Dom Phillips attracted the world’s gazes to the region of the Javari Valley, in the west of Amazonas. The second largest...
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Luciana Gatti: ‘We are wrecking our rain-making factory’
Catastrophic. This is how researcher Luciana Gatti, of Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), defines the current situation of the Brazilian Amazon. After nearly a decade of research...
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Fake news helps concentrate wealth and favors destruction of the forest, says...
Since formally announcing her support for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT-Worker’s Party), the former minister of the Environment and federal deputy candidate Marina Silva (Rede) has been attacked by...
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Funai to seek support from the Amazon Fund: ‘things are destitute’, says...
Joenia Wapichana is the first Indigenous woman to head the National Indigenous Peoples’ Foundation (Funai: A federal agency created in 1967 with the responsibility for implementing policies for the...
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70% of the Amazon forest could be degraded by 2050
While deforestation is widely studied, the processes of forest degradation are advancing silently, causing impacts that are just as grave, if not more so. “We’ve had our sights on the fish and we...
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