Viver e morrer na floresta
An overview of the increasing violence in the Amazon against activists and environmental defenders - including against indigenous people
Bolsonaro acentua conflito de interesses em terras indígenas
An exploration of the politics of Bolsonaro’s proposals to open up indigenous lands to capitalist exploitation by the non-indigenous - with particular reference to...
Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances
Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances contributes to ongoing debates on the processes of change in the Amazon, a region...
Living in the shadow of Amazon tailings dams
Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN), the world’s fourth largest bauxite producer, encroached on riverine communities beside the Trombetas River in the Brazilian Amazon in...
The Amazon: Covid-19 exploited to get power lines built
Plans to build a massive EHV 230 kV power line 225 kms long from Óbidos in Pará state across the Amazon river to Parintins...
Bolsonaro — the new Jim Jones
President Bolsonaro is the new 'Jim Jones', says Jan Rocha, comparing the Brazilian president to the cult leader who led his followers in a mass suicide in Guayana in 1978.