Entries by Lourival Sant'Anna

A real fairy tale

For some reason that only perhaps the subtlety of the shadows of the great forest can understand, João and Maria always came back. Without following breadcrumbs.
Because to seek your destiny, you don’t need traces, just follow your soul. Calmly. As did Maria and João.

God helps those who do the night shift

I observed more than I photographed. I noticed in his gaze a reciprocal curiosity, the kind you need little to understand. After all, plotting stories only depends on how far our curiosity for life can take us.

Red river dolphin

Oceanographer Miriam Marmontel, from the Mamirauá Institute, recently returned from another expedition in the Amanã reserve, and describes the situation of the pink river dolphins. She talks about the threats and solutions for generating sustainable income.

Anticipated tragedy

Yanomami die of hunger and disease due to lack of assistance from the public health system and harassment by illegal miners, whose presence prevents them from hunting, fishing and gathering food, in addition to bringing diseases to which the indigenous people have no resistance.

Carbon technology

A fundamental challenge at the carbon market is the credibility of the sequestration calculation. Brazil is managing to meet this demand, thanks to companies such as Vert Ecotech and Virtus Automation and A.I.

Sussuarana and I

Adriano Gambarini — Don’t stay down, because they confuse with animal… It was the only sentence that that backwoodsman from Piauí spoke, after hours there, on the lookout, waiting for […]

Hindsight and perspective

Adriano Gambarini This year has not been easy for the environment. The planet has shown frequent signs of changes that are not only about to come, but which, in an […]

New economy

Innovation, entrepreneurship and logistics projects in the Amazon market products that keep the forest standing and generate income for rural producers and traditional communities.

Genomic wealth

The COP15 on Biodiversity in Montreal decided to create a multilateral fund to repatriate the benefits of companies that make use of digital genetic information. Traditional communities may be compensated.

Nuclear fusion

The announcement of the first nuclear fusion with a net energy gain opens the door to a clean, abundant and virtually inexhaustible source of energy. According to the most pessimistic estimates, it could become a reality in this century.