World Dec 29 Amazon rainforest defender Marina Silva named Brazil’s new environment minister Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Amazon activist Marina Silva will be the country's next minister of environment.
World Dec 23 Brazil’s Lula’s promises to end deforestation face challenges from traditional rubber tappers Brazil's incoming president has promised to eliminate all deforestation by 2030, which would be a complete change of course for Brazil compared to the last four years. But the parts of Amazon region, with its legacy of rubber tappers, have…
World Nov 03 In the Amazon rainforest, a giant fish makes a comeback thanks to settler and Indigenous cooperation Along the Jurua River, a tributary of the Amazon, riverine settlers and Indigenous villages are working together to promote the sustainable fishing of near magic fish called pirarucu.
World Aug 18 Brazil government removes environment chief in possible reprisal The action comes just days after the environmental chief granted an interview to television behemoth Globo about illegal gold mining in Yanomami Indigenous territory.
World Jun 17 Brazil police say remains found in the Amazon are those of missing British journalist Federal police say that some of the human remains found deep in Brazil's Amazon have been identified as belonging to British journalist Dom Phillips.
World Jun 16 Amazon fisherman confesses to killing missing journalist and Indigenous expert Brazilian authorities say a fisherman confessed to killing a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in Brazil's remote Amazon region and took police to a site where human remains were recovered.
World Jun 07 Dom Phillips, Indigenous expert and British writer, still missing in Brazil A British journalist and an Indigenous affairs expert remain missing in a remote part of Brazil’s Amazon region and authorities say they are expanding search efforts.