Brazil

With the number of fires in the Amazon 80 per cent higher than in 2023, has the rainforest reached its tipping point, after which it will became savannah and desert with calamitous implications for climate, rainfall and food across the entire planet?

In September 2022, LAB described a new photo exhibition, created by the Brazilian photographer and film-maker Marilene Cardoso Ribeiro. Now that exhibition has come to...

Photojournalist Edmar Barros travelled through one of the regions hardest hit by the fires in the Amazon, Amacro, on the border with Acre and Rondônia, to show the havoc wreaked by flames and drought.

In the second of two articles, mining engineer Laurence Morris describes how the oligarchy of the 'Big Five' mining companies operates and the negative consequences of their monopoly of power, influence and resources.

In the early hours of Monday August 12, silence fell on the Amazon. Márcio Souza, writer, dramatist, director, novelist, 'emperor of the Amazon', passed...

This article, by Marcos Colón (Amazônia Latitude) and Katie Surma (Inside Climate News) was first published by Sumaúma on 8 August 2024. You can read...

Celebration of 25 Years of Resistance and Good Living Forum 2024Foot of the Mountain Village, Easter Mountain, Southern Bahia August 17-20, 2024 On August 19,...

Congratulations to Tom Gatehouse for winning a #PENTranslates award from English PEN to translate Bernardo Kucinski's part political essay, part ghost story 'The Congress of the Disappeared' from the Portuguese into English.

Landowners across Brazil are escalating attacks against Indigenous peoples. While Lula's government appears powerless, landowners are forcibly evicting Indigenous communities, especially where these have reoccupied lands stolen from them previously and to which they will be denied rights under the 'Marco Temporal' (time-limit) rule likely to be approved by the right-wing dominated Congress and already being applied by local judges.

Journalists in the Amazon face unique dangers, as the murders of Dom Philips and Bruno Pereira underlined. Amazônia Latitude interviewed a number of journalists working in the Amazon who stress the need for local journalism, 'committed to life'.