Catarina Barbosa
Morte anunciada, medo e desmatamento no Virola-Jatobá: o desmonte do sonho apoiado por Dorothy Stang
O assassinato de Ronilson Santos – invasor, posseiro, grileiro, desmatador, agricultor sem terra, ora vítima, ora bandido – mostra a complexidade da luta pela terra na Amazônia e aponta o quanto as instituições públicas ou estão ausentes ou desinformadas ou omissas
Explosive threat to giant armored catfish and ribeirinho sanctuary
Environmental agency Ibama has approved a plan to demolish an important habitat, the Pedral do Lourenção on the Tocantins River, to widen the waterway for soy cargo ships. The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office is challenging the license
Exclusive: Banks and public money are financing Amazon collapse
From January 2018 to August 2024, nearly $1.9 billion was lent to 24,000 rural areas in the region known as Amacro, an agricultural frontier opened under Bolsonaro. Some of this money ended up in the hands of people involved in deforestation and suspected funders of the attempted coup in Brasilia
The seven-year-old girl who fears being burned alive by ‘bad men’
Violence persists at the Dorothy Stang Resettlement, in Anapu, in the Brazilian Amazon, 19 years after the missionary's murder. Landgrabbers are trying to drive residents away by attacking the school, which has been burned down twice
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Quando o coração amazônico de Osvalinda Pereira parou de bater
A vida, as lutas e os afetos da defensora que se dedicou a denunciar a ação ilegal de grileiros e madeireiros na Terra do Meio, no Pará, apesar de todas as ameaças de morte
Norwegian and French companies turn Barcarena into a city of environmental disasters
The Amazonian municipality has had nearly 30 accidents in two decades, 16 of them connected to Norway’s Norsk Hydro and France’s Imerys, and residents fear contamination from heavy metals and a 636% spike in cancer cases from 2000 to 2022
The Amazonian municipality has had nearly 30 accidents in two decades, 16 of them connected to Norway’s Norsk Hydro and France’s Imerys, and residents fear contamination from heavy metals and a 636% spike in cancer cases from 2000 to 2022