In the town that led Brazil’s infamous Fire Day, land thieves flex their muscles and set the tone for the next elections, pressuring Congress, the Judiciary, and the Lula administration to sever and privatize a chunk of Jamanxim National Forest twice the area of São Paulo city
Science has proved that psychedelics, like ayahuasca, can increase the production of new neurons. But reducing the benefits of these ritual medicines to ‘cellular plasticity’ is a dangerous gateway to their appropriation by the market
Lula is struggling to demarcate territories and there are signs of a retreat from a Supreme Court under attack from the most predatory Congress since Brazil’s redemocratization
Num governo que fez apenas oito demarcações até agora, lideranças cobram mais apoio político à pasta de Sonia Guajajara e cogitam vetar convite a Lula para o Acampamento Terra Livre
The Lula administration has failed to save Yanomami lives
How the Brazilian government spent $200 million and mobilized nearly 2,000 healthcare workers, yet wasted a year in addressing the healthcare crisis in the Indigenous land
The refrain of the 2024 theme song for the Salgueiro samba school, which will pay homage to the Yanomami people this Carnival, is an endangered truth. One year after the Lula administration declared a public health emergency in Yanomami Indigenous Territory, the deaths continue. The toll had reached 308 by the end of November, more than half involving children under the age of five
At a conference that looks like it is set in a theme park, Lula undermines the government’s environmental credibility by announcing that Brazil will join OPEC+. Colombian president says only a new, progressive generation can move Latin America away from fossil fuels
The UN Conference gathers countries to try to solve the most global of problems: the climate crisis