Marcello Queiroz Criminal and deafening, the noise of the chainsaw disturbs the forest. The bother is heightened by another sound that shouldn’t belong to the place either—that’s of motorcycles driven […]
The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon reached 5,373 last July, according to data from Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research (Inpe). The figure is 7.9% higher than […]
Indigenous activist Txai Suruí took part in June at the Cannes Lions 2022, the International Festival of Creativity, in Cannes, France. During the New Zero World seminar, she spoke about […]
Arapaima, the appreciated red “giant fish” of the Amazon, had practically disappeared from the lakes of Fonte Boa, 600 km from Manaus, due to overfishing by commercial boats. In 2003, the […]
“Salto Augusto” where the Juruena River forms waterfalls in the Apiaká do Pontal and Isolados Indigenous Land, in Mato Grosso – Fotos: Adriano Gambarini The Juruena River, a left bank […]
Yellow Ipê is the best known and the typical tree of Brazil, a country’s symbol flower. Very common in the Cerrado and urban areas of the Planalto Central (Central Plateau), […]
Almir Suruí, 47, an indigenous leader of the Paiter-Suruí people, is the first interviewee of the Earth News Terra podcast. The premiere episode is available from this Sunday, June 5th, […]
The Amazon and Cerrado have registered records of forest fires in May. In the case of the Brazilian Amazon, there were 2,287 outbreaks of forest fires. It is the highest […]
Considered “warriors of the waters”, they are not only forest dwellers but heirs to the resistance power
It forms the Tapajós Basin and represents the meeting of the states of Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Pará