Carla Ruas

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.

Since 2003, Indigenous organizations have been calling for the establishment of Yavarí Mirim, an extensive reserve for hundreds of isolated Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon.

Trafigura, one of the world’s largest oil traders, has recently invested $100 million to grow 30,000 hectares (74,000 acres) of forest in the eastern plains of Colombia’s Vichada department.

The Brazilian state of Pará has agreed to sell millions of carbon credits to multinational corporations, including Amazon, Bayer and Walmart Foundation, but many challenges loom.

A Repórter Brasil teve acesso aos “Monsanto Papers”, série de documentos internos da empresa comprada em 2016 pela multinacional alemã Bayer.

Indigenous leaders gathered at New York Climate Week to call on global leaders to address the unprecedented drought and wildfire crisis in the Amazon Rainforest.

Análise aponta que risco dessas condições graves aumenta em cidades com 5% ou mais da área dedicada a plantações.

Una investigación expone la relación entre el uso de pesticidas y el aumento de enfermedades graves entre los bebés de las zonas rurales.

Investigação expõe a relação entre o uso de agrotóxicos e o aumento de condições graves entre bebês do campo.

Research exposes the link between the use of pesticides and the increase in serious health conditions among rural babies.

Pesquisa da Universidade Estadual de Maringá mostra como calor excessivo aumenta chances de acidentes de trabalho, inclusive com mortes; Profissionais no Centro-Oeste, pardos ou amarelos, entre 41 e 60 anos, estão sujeitos a um excesso de risco.

The red siskin has long been sought out by illegal bird traders and breeders due to its unique red-and-black plumage and cheerful song. The endangered species had almost disappeared from tropical South America until a population was recorded in Guyana.

A new report has found that wildlife smugglers employ sophisticated methods to smuggle species from the Brazilian rainforest, including widespread fraud and corruption. Multiple reports of bribery within traffic routes originating in Brazil, including of the public officials responsible for wildlife protection, are also present.

As chuvas que arrasaram o Rio Grande do Sul e levaram a 172 mortes foram fortemente influenciadas pelo aquecimento global e pelo fenômeno natural El Niño. Um relatório publicado nesta segunda-feira (3) pelo WWA (World Weather Attribution) concluiu que cada um deles duplicou as chances de precipitação histórica.

On Wednesday, May 4, muddy waters flooded the streets of Muçum, a municipality with four thousand inhabitants in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil. Euclides Ferreira dos Santos, 75, and his family knew what to do.