Recommended reading for World Cup fans
Philosophy Football's Mark Perryman provides a World Cup reading list.
Rapid deforestation may fuel pandemics
Nearly 25,000 COVID-19 cases have
been confirmed in Brazil, with 1,378 deaths as of April 15, though some
experts say this is an underestimate....
Belo Monte — Indians threaten “river of blood”
Controversy over Brazil’s giant hydropower station in the Xingu river is set to intensify. Sue Branford reports.
Genesis by SebastiÃo Salgado
A new exhibition in London by Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado takes us to the last unspoilt regions of the planet.
Amazonas: Brazil’s Indians under threat from land grabs
Violence against indigenous people in Humaitá in the state of Amazonas has recently flared up again, but conflict over land, logging and roads dates back decades.
Amazon indigenous group recovers sacred urns
In 2013, during the building of the Teles Pires dam in the Brazilian Amazon, the Teles Pires Hydroelectric Company (CHTP) dynamited Karobixexe...
The measles from the time of my grandfather
This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic, published on Somatosphere.
Main image: CCPY doctor examines a sick Yanomami child, Balaú, Brazil....
Brazil: anger over Amazon dams
Social movements are protesting over plans to push ahead with hydroelectric dams along the Tapajós river. Bruna Rocha reports for LAB.
Bulletin 8 February 2010
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