Brazil lost over 3 million acres of vegetation in 2024 despite 32% drop in deforestation
São Paulo, Brazil – Brazil recorded a sharp 32.4% decrease in deforestation across its biomes in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to a...
Category : Environment
Indigenous people from across the globe gather in Brazil, call for land demarcation, environmental protection
São Paulo, Brazil – Thousands of Indigenous people from as far off as Australia gathered in Brazil’s capital, Brasília, this week to voice their demands...
Following visit from Angelina Jolie, Brazilian Kayapó Chief Raoni meets Lula, warns against oil drilling
São Paulo, Brazil — On the heels of hosting American actress and activist Angelina Jolie just days before, Chief Raoni Metuktire, one of the most...
Four ways the USAID funding freeze is impacting in Latin America
Upon taking office on January 20, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order which immediately halted all United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...
Crime syndicates expand their grip on Brazil’s Amazon
São Paulo, Brazil – A new report from the Brazilian Forum on Public Security, a nongovernmental organization comprised of researchers and experts, has shed light...
Brazil’s Tupinambá Indigenous people reunite with sacred cloak after 380 years
São Paulo, Brazil – Nearly four centuries after being taken from Brazil during its colonization, a sacred Tupinambá cloak has been returned to its Indigenous...
Oil spill spreads across Venezuela’s Caribbean coast amid country’s election crisis
A massive oil spill has been spreading off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast since mid-August, covering at least 225 square kilometers (nearly 90 square miles). The spill...
Fires ravage Brazil’s Pantanal, threatening its unique biodiversity
São Paulo, Brazil – A series of wildfires is turning the world’s largest tropical wetland into an open-air inferno. Home to over 3,500 plant species,...
Jaguars struggle to survive amid human expansion in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest
São Paulo, Brazil – Humans encroaching upon the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil are jeopardizing the way of life and causing drastic changes in the...
Airport in Porto Alegre, Brazil, could remain closed until December following floods
São Paulo, Brazil – Following severe flooding last month in Porto Alegre, the capital of Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state, the city’s Salgado...
