Marcos Colón
Brazil: illegal mining pollutes Tapajós
The explosion of mining in the mid-section of the Tapajós River is most likely the cause of the change in water color in Alter...
Another Brazil is possible
Extraordinary photo of a Zo'é man carrying his father to be vaccinated has gone viral as a symbol of hope for all Brazilians
COP26: cognitive disconnections
Amazônia Latitude's Marcos Colón reports from Glasgow on the cognitive dissonance that affects COP26, where those most concerned about and those most affected by climate change are effectively excluded from the conference and governments and business bandy technological fixes.
Stepping softly on the earth
A new film from Marcos Colón interviews indigenous leaders from across the Amazon whose thinking could transform our world as modern extraction and exploitation tip us further towards chaos and the destruction of the planet
World Environment Day – call for bold journalism
Where journalism is planted, democracy blooms
Brazilian Network of Environmental Media
June 5, 2020
On this World Environment Day, the environmental media and journalists guarantee that they...
The Amazon: deregulation and deforestation fuel the pandemic
This article by Marcos Colón, Luise de Camões Lima Boaventura, and Erik Jennings was edited by LAB. The authors’ original text (in Portuguese) can...
Brazil’s Yanomami people: silence, devastation and fear
This article was first published in Portuguese by Público. It has been translated for LAB by Theo Bradford and edited by Mike Gatehouse
There was...
The Amazon: hunger – the invisible side of Covid-19
This article originally appeared in Portuguese in the Portuguese newspaper O Público, on 2 April, here.
The version published by Amazon Latitude, here, was translated...
Illegal mining poisons the Amazon
A new film by Jorge Bodansky analyzes the mercury contamination of Amazonian rivers as a result of illegal mining.
Will the Amazon Rainforest become a commodity?
Almost two centuries ago two leading British naturalists and explorers, Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace, spent three years studying animals and insects in the...
