Journalist with experience covering human rights and environmental issues.
Bayer escolhe Brasil para estrear complemento a agrotóxico mais polêmico do mundo
Com estreia prevista para 2028, o icafolin-metil é, antes de tudo, uma aposta contra a crescente resistência de pragas aos pesticidas disponíveis no mercado.
Startup americana tenta trazer ao Brasil antibiótico para laranja proibido na União Europeia
O Brasil seria o segundo a autorizar o medicamento no combate à citros, após os Estados Unidos.
Heat, fires and agribusiness squeeze traditional Amazon açaí harvesters
Intensive farming of the popular açaí berry grew by 70% since 2015, while community cooperatives reported losses of 35% or more during recent heat waves and fires.
Agrotóxico: seguro pra quem?
Neste episódio especial, as repórteres Carla Ruas e Silvia Lisboa visitaram diferentes plantações no interior do Rio Grande do Sul e analisaram os Monsanto Papers, um vazamento de informações internas da Monsanto.
Seminarian-turned-fire-agent preaches new tactics to fight Amazon’s burn crisis
Lacking trucks and gear, a civil servant once destined for the priesthood now uses WhatsApp groups to direct volunteers who must manually carry river water through dense forest to tackle record blazes in the Amazon.
Brazil aims for alternative route to fossil fuel road map after COP30 failure
Brazil will collaborate with the Colombian and Dutch delegations to develop the road map outside the formal U.N. process, with the goal of bringing it back for discussion at COP31.
Brazil’s forest fund faces a slow takeoff at COP30 despite initial support
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) secured $6.7 billion in sponsor capital at COP30, representing less than a quarter of the $25 billion initially required for a full-scale rollout.
Brazil hosts COP30 with high ambitions — and scaling environmental ambiguities
Three environmental moves in Brazil are drawing criticism as the country hosts COP30: a green light for exploratory oil drilling on the Amazon coast, an end to the Soy Moratorium and a push for looser environmental licensing.
Bayer enfrenta 160 mil ações de vítimas do glifosato nos EUA, e apenas 6 no Brasil
AGROTÓXICO mais vendido no Brasil, o glifosato é alvo de ao menos 1.006 ações na Justiça brasileira por danos à saúde de trabalhadores e comunidades vizinhas às plantações, segundo levantamento exclusivo da Repórter Brasil.
‘Independent’ auditors overvalue credits of carbon projects, study finds
A recent study reviewed 95 flawed carbon credit projects registered under Verra, the world’s largest voluntary carbon credit registry.
Report sees $20B in revenue for Amazon REDD+ projects despite unmet promises
A recent report estimates jurisdictional REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon could generate up to $20 billion in revenue. However, experts are skeptical that these programs can ultimately address the root causes of deforestation.
Now on Wall Street, JBS eyes growth amid scrutiny on deforestation & graft
The world’s largest meatpacker had a long journey to the U.S. stock market, one full of reports of greenwashing and corruption.
‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal
A Brazilian state was set to close a massive $180 million carbon credit deal with companies including Amazon, Bayer, H&M Group, and Walmart, but now faces an escalating legal battle, accused of violating national laws and Indigenous rights.
New forest loss data beef up Amazon deforestation case against Casino Group
A new report by Brazilian nonprofit Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV) states that Casino Group’s beef supply chain could be linked to up to 526,459 hectares (about 1.3 million acres) of deforestation in Brazil between 2018 and 2023.
Bolivian communities push back against foreign-backed lithium projects
In 2024, Bolivia’s state-owned lithium company signed contracts worth a combined $2 billion with Russian and Chinese companies to mine lithium from Salar de Uyuni in the country’s southwest.