Amazon deforestation totalled 430 sq kms in January 2022
The area destroyed was five times larger than 2021, the highest January total since records began in 2015
IN PHOTOS: Indigenous protestors camp at Bolsonaro's doorstep as crucial native title case begins
A Brasilia court will hear a case on whether legal protection should be accorded to only those lands owned by native people in 1988
Brazil polls 2022: DTE’s coverage of a ‘Once in a generation’ election
Down To Earth tried to catch all the vibes as Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva clashed in a high stakes battle
‘The fight to save the Amazon is urgent as there is no Plan B’
One of Brazil’s most noted indigenous voices, Sonia Guajajara, speaks on the Amazon fires
After Amazon fires, Brazil now faces oil spill crisis
Mysterious oil slicks have spread across 2,000 kilometres of the country’s northern coast since September, contaminating beaches and …
Amazon fires declined in September, but deforestation persists: Amazon Watch
The outbreak of fires in the rainforest declined 19.6 per cent compared to the same period last year
Get out, Bolsonaro: Amazonian activists protest Brazil leader’s meeting with Biden
Both leaders are meeting at the ongoing Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles
‘The Amazon recycles water’
Down To Earth speaks to environmental scientist Deborah Lawrence on the Amazon blazes
In Brazil’s rainforests, the worst fires are likely still to come
Bolsonaro inherited weakened environment laws that he seems to be bent on weakening further
Indigenous people are heading to CoP26: “There is no solution to the climate crisis, without us”
The indigenous movement has mobilised the largest delegation of Brazilian leaders in the history of the climate conference to put forward the …
Brazil lost rainforest the size of Jamaica in 2019-2020: Institute
There was a 9.5 per cent jump in deforestation of the Brazillian Amazon since 2019, in line with President Jair Bolsonaro’s anti-…
Brazil polls: Commentators cautiously welcome Lula win; say hard work on Amazon begins now
Workers’s Party’s Lula may be president but Brazilian Congress still dominated by right-wing Bolsonaro supporters
COVID-19: A viral change in the regime
The pandemic has brought out not only many socio-economic and political fault lines in global governance, but also in individual countries
Don’t let Bolsonaro’s Brazil join you, non-profits urge OECD
Non-profits criticise Brazil’s candidacy to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development while dismantling socio-…
Why fires that scorched the Amazon are a planetary emergency
From the Arctic to the Amazon, fires are raging at an unprecedented scale, stoking an unfathomable fear: is the planet staring at an irreversible …
Lula’s comeback is a second chance for Brazil’s poorest
If he wants to leave a long-standing legacy to Brazilians in this third (and possibly final) term in office, Lula will have to restore Bolsa Fam&…
Brazil polls: Lula can win but 2023 to be difficult for country, say experts
The erstwhile Lula administration’s successful welfare and cash-transfer policies from 2003-2010, are the former president’s greatest …
Brazil to go in for second round of voting after Lula fails to win outright
Incumbent Jair Bolsonaro is widely expected to win the second round on October 30
The Amazon fire: This and next time
Fires like the current one lead to wholesale irreversible changes in the structure and composition of forest ecosystems, impoverishing both their …
President Lula calls Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 actions ‘genocide’, to reinstate Bolsa Familia
Veteran leftist leader aims for zero deforestation in the Amazon; zero greenhouse gas emissions in electricity matrix
Brazil launches operation against mining mafia on Indigenous land
Special forces destroy aircraft and seize weapons; non-profit Amazon Watch asks for probe into those behind the ‘horror’
Bolsanaro’s environmental crimes come under EU scanner
Europe’s resolve to act against the Bolsonaro government’s environmental crimes appears to be strengthening
Brazil Congress votes to dilute ministries of environment, Indigenous rights’ powers
First clash of President Lula with conservative Congress as lawmakers vote 15-3 to restructure ministries back to Bolsonaro-era
‘Let me be blunt’: What’s bothering WHO chief on COVID-19
WHO Director-General expresses concern over rising cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
