Here at Earth News Terra we don’t fight the news. There is no way to work for a different reality without first looking at it for what it is. At the same time, what motivated the creation of this platform was the desire to get out of impotence, despair, the dangerous feeling that the Amazon is lost, there is nothing to be done. We go out in search of solutions, and they exist.
Ademar lost a tortoise, I gained many ticks and the great pleasure of seeing, and now sharing, an animal that is perhaps as fanciful as the stories that are lost in the corners of the forest.
The ocean is both the supermarket and the sewer of the world. It receives all kinds of pollutants, from plastic to heavy metals, along with residential and industrial waste. This, combined with global warming, compromises the balance of the seas and, with it, of the planet.
But, as it is the stubbornness that often leads us to phenomenal experiences, I ended the trail bringing with me the thrilling vision of the Gray Glacier, blessed by several moments of contemplation of this world’s grandeur, the inner dialogues, the condor flights over my head, the centenary groves of crooked trees, the “bone-breaking” cold bath in the Los Perros River, the flowering fields and waterfalls of very green waters, and the magical dawn on the rocky walls of Torres Del Paine.
Nobody can justify all the ignorance and carelessness with the Amazon and other Brazilian territories with a lack of access to information. Brazil’s 8.5 million km² are scanned by MapBiomas, a monumental collection of maps, statistics and analytical tools.
Brazil’s ore production is shifting from Minas Gerais and other parts of the country and focusing on the Amazon, mainly in the state of Pará. Much of this production is […]
Somehow this is what I always looked for, and found, in more than two decades of involvement with an activity that has become more than the extension of a speleological study, the craft of documenting a fantastic world or a life adventure. Entering a cave became the encounter with stillness.
Brazil nuts production breaks records, but traditional peoples in the Amazon have a history not only of gathering but also of agriculture. “Indigenous peoples have developed millenary techniques for the production of fertile, ‘fertilized’ black earth, with which they ‘managed’ large areas of forest with edible plants”, claims the new book “Amazon in the 21st Century”.
For people with less familiarity with the subject, the importance of biodiversity is not very clear, other than simply a kind of compassion for an animal that disappears, a certain melancholy for the loss without return. But biodiversity has other impacts, for example on the economy and human health.
The collection of Brazil nut broke a record in northern Pará. The Mixed Cooperative of Traditional Peoples and Communities of Calha Norte (Coopaflora) claims to have sold 98.5 tons of […]