five years on, his killers still evade justice
Paulo Paulino Guajajara looks down and off to one side, the Amazon forest lush and dense behind him. His voice thickens; he clears his throat. “My mother, she’s unwell. She…
Paulo Paulino Guajajara looks down and off to one side, the Amazon forest lush and dense behind him. His voice thickens; he clears his throat. “My mother, she’s unwell. She…
Content warning: this article contains references to suicide, which readers may find distressing. Suicide is a major global public health issue, leading to approximately 700,000 deaths each year. While the…
The following investigation is by Monica Piccinini, Lucas Ferrante, and Philip Fearnside, and was originally published on 9 September, in Portuguese, on Amazonia Real Brazil’s Ministry of Transportation plans to…
Over the past few decades, China’s investment in Brazil’s Amazon region has significantly grown and broadened, particularly in sectors like agriculture, mining, infrastructure, and energy. However, this influx has sparked…
An Indigenous tribe, the Kawahiva people, in the Brazilian Amazon was discovered 25 years ago. Now, Indigenous rights campaigners are criticising Brazil’s authorities for leaving surviving members of the uncontacted…
On Thursday 4 April, researchers delivered more damning news on the biodiversity crisis. While Amazon deforestation rates have plummeted in Brazil, elsewhere, capitalist extractivism continues clearing biodiverse tropical forests at…
In the lead-up to hosting COP30 in 2025, Belém, the capital of Pará in northern Brazil, is confronted with a multitude of pressing issues, from insufficient sanitation and widespread crime…
Lucas Ferrante, researcher with a PhD in ecology from Brazil’s National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), has conducted multiple scientific studies uncovering the negative impacts of the BR-319 highway project…