Top brands buy carbon credits from suspected scam operation in the Amazon
Two projects whose carbon offset credits were sold to companies such as Gol, Nestlé, Toshiba, and PwC may have laundered timber illegally sourced from deforested areas. This report is part of the Opaque Carbon series, which brings together 14 Latin American media outlets
Welcome to the floating world
The devastating floods in southern Brazil are a taste of the ever-worsening chaos to come and a reminder of why governments must protect those who protect the forest and other pillars of climate stability
‘This is the second house we’ve left now. The first flooded before’
Cartoonist Pablito Aguiar interviews Jeferson (Maninho) and Vanja Moura de Melo, residents of Alvorada, in Rio Grande do Sul, while they ride a boat through flooded streets in search of safe harbor
‘I couldn’t let anyone die. It was instinct’
Matheus Lana and his family lost everything in the flood that inundated the city of Canoas, in southern Brazil. Talking to cartoonist Pablito Aguiar, the young man of 22 years says that, in the face of the devastation, all he can think about is saving lives
The fire that devoured Anzol
Fires have grown by 285% in Roraima, the result of crime, deforestation and the climate crisis, reducing part of the forest to ash, burning animals and leaving people with no home
After floods and destruction, Brasiléia plans to move
An Amazonian border city already impacted substantially by drug trafficking fears it will not withstand the increasingly frequent climate disasters
Climate crisis creates conditions for dengue fever to ‘explode’
Human-caused global heating has contributed to the proliferation of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which now reproduces faster, bites more and lives longer
Short but terrifying – the human ‘event’
Planetary historians have rejected proposals to announce a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, but nobody doubts the impact of our species on the world will last for thousands of years
The motley crew auditioning to be the next Bolsonaro
As a police net closes in on the former president, candidates are jostling to secure his endorsement by downplaying last year’s attempted coup
Sarayaku victory against oil exploitation is an inspiration for the entire Amazon
For 40 years, this indigenous people in Ecuador have fought against multiple actors to protect the living rainforest, setting an example that can be followed by other indigenous peoples and traditional communities
