Avainsana: Brazil
Brazilian Amazon deforestation hits new record in May
Deforestation continued to surge in the Brazilian Amazon last month, according to official figures released Friday, showing it was the worst May and worst first…
Overworked, underpaid Brazil nurses risk lives to care for patients
Bossan works three jobs to provide for his wife and two-year-old daughter — at two different hospitals and a mobile emergency unit. Double and triple…
Brazil enlists rappers for national campaign against child labor
Brazilian labor authorities will use rap to raise awareness on child labor as part of a national campaign launched on Wednesday to address officials’ fears…
Climate change: older trees loss continue around the world
Older, carbon-rich tropical forests continue to be lost at a frightening rate, according to satellite data. In 2019, an area of primary forest the size…
In the Amazon, a farmer practices the future of sustainable cattle ranching
Cattle farming is one of the drivers of Brazil’s economy, both for domestic consumption as well as for export. Cattle ranching in the Amazon, however,…
Brazil using coronavirus to cover up assaults on Amazon, warn activists
As the coronavirus pandemic eats its way into the Amazon, raising fears of a genocide of its vulnerable indigenous tribes, the government of the far-right…
Lack of clean water leaves Brazil indigenous reserve exposed to coronavirus
In Brazil’s most populous indigenous reserve, the Guarani Kaiowa people live in fear of catching the novel coronavirus, knowing they have no access to one…
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