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National Geographic • 11th May 2022

A jornada de uma aldeia amazônica para escapar do avanço da soja

Todas as noites, homens kisêdjê carregam cadeiras de plástico até o centro de um enorme pátio circundado pelas dezenas de ocas que compõem a aldeia Khikatxi. O período seco e a pouca luz criam um céu negro profundo e estrelado sobre o território indígena Wawi, a nordeste do Mato Grosso.

Poor Countries Face a Mounting Catastrophe Fueled by Inflation and Debt

Before war ravaged Yemen, Walid Al-Ahdal did not worry about feeding his children. At his hometown near the Red Sea, his family grew corn, raised goats and relied on their own cow for milk.

The New York Times • 4th January 2022

Leftists Are Ascendant in Latin America as Key Elections Loom

Growing inequality and sputtering economies have helped fuel a wave of leftist victories that may soon extend to Brazil and Colombia.

The New York Times • 28th December 2021

Record Floods Stun Brazil’s Northeast, Killing at Least 20

At least 20 people have been killed and more than 50,000 driven from their homes by calamitous floods sweeping through northeastern Brazil.

The New York Times • 27th April 2021

Ravaged by Covid, Brazil Faces a Hunger Epidemic

Tens of millions of Brazilians are facing hunger or food insecurity as the country’s Covid-19 crisis drags on, killing thousands of people every day.

An Amazon indigenous village’s flight from sprawling soy

Photography and reporting for National Geographic Brazil and Diálogo Chino - Mato Grosso state, 2021

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Dialogo Chino • 11th May 2022

An Amazon indigenous village’s flight from sprawling soy

Every night, Kisêdjê men carry plastic chairs to the centre of a huge yard surrounded by the dozens of huts that make up the village of Khikatxi. The dry season and the low light combine to create a deep, starry black sky over the Wawi indigenous territory in which it is located, in the northeast of Brazil’s Mato Grosso state.

In Brazil, Firms Sought Black Workers. Then LinkedIn Got Involved.

After Brazilian activists fought LinkedIn for removing job ads that sought Black and Indigenous candidates, the company changed its global policy.

The New York Times • 13th December 2021

Inflationary Wave Changes Political Terrain for Right-Wing Populists

President Jair Bolsonaro on Brazil’s Independence Day in September. The country’s currency has steadily declined in value, and its economy slipped back into recession in the third quarter.

The New York Times • 12th October 2021

A Martial Arts Star Is Criticized for His Handling of Abuse Cases

Roberto Abreu, known as Cyborg, has acknowledged missteps in the way he responded to sexual abuse allegations in his Brazilian jiu-jitsu organization.

The New York Times • 7th September 2021

Pro-Bolsonaro Rallies May Be Prelude to Power Grab, Critics Say

President Jair Bolsonaro rallied a crowd of supporters in Brasília, the capital, on Brazil’s Independence day. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Critics see in the rhetoric of the leader, who is seeing declining poll numbers and mounting legal challenges, a parallel to former President Donald J. Trump’s. Pro-Bolsonaro Rallies May Be Prelude to Power Grab, Critics Say RIO DE JANEIRO — Beleaguered by declining poll numbers, a sputter

The New Republic • 7th September 2021

Can Fashion Help Small Farmers Preserve the Amazon?

On a rainy March afternoon, Rogério Mendes strides through the dripping vegetation of a tract of virgin Amazonian forest and stops at a tree with scars arranged in neat diagonal rows across its trunk. From his back pocket he produces a wood-handled tool with a blade on one end, called a cabrita, and cuts another diagonal line though the bark, beneath the others. A milky white goo—raw liquid latex—begins to trickle down this tiny canal and into a metal pail below. “I love being in the forest, it’s an inexplicable feeling,” says the 23-year-old, who sports a tattered canvas hat and a forearm inked with tree tattoos.

the Guardian • 19th June 2021

Fresh protests in Brazil against Bolsonaro’s handling of Covid pandemic

Thousands of Brazilians returned to the streets on Saturday in protest against the response of Jair Bolsonaro’s administration to a pandemic that has killed close on half a million people in the country – the most after the United States.

The Guardian • 10th June 2021

‘Makes you sick’: fury in Rio as pregnant 24-year-old killed amid police raid

In early June, Kathlen Romeu posted a photo of herself and her boyfriend on a Instagram, with a caption announcing that she was pregnant. “I am discovering myself as a mother, and I am scared thinking about how it is going to be,” the 24-year old interior designer wrote on 2 June. “I laugh, I cry and I am afraid.”

The Guardian • 3rd May 2021

‘Calamity of maternal deaths’: Covid concern grows for Brazil’s pregnant

This month should have been one of the happiest in Letícia Aparecida Gomes’s life. The pregnant 23-year-old Brazilian had been due to marry before delivering her baby, Elloah, in August.

The New York Times • 15th April 2021

How Working From Home Changed Wardrobes Around the World

It wasn’t all sweats and leggings. A whirlwind tour of how the pandemic affected what we wore, from India to Italy.

Time • 6th April 2020

Brazil's President Still Insists the Coronavirus Is Overblown. These Governors Are Fighting Back

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is in a class of his own. He is the only leader left in the world to reject the consensus of scientists and statisticians on the gravity of the coronavirus outbreak.

Time • 12th September 2019

The Amazon Rain Forest Is Nearly Gone. We Went to the Front Lines to See If It Could Be Saved

If nothing is done, the Amazon might completely disappear before the end of the century

Can green rubber help protect the Amazon?

The New Republic and Food & Environment Reporting Network - Acre state, 2021

Cerrado: whose land is it?

Bahia state, 2018

Mongabay Environmental News • 28th March 2018

U.S. investment spurs land theft, deforestation in Brazil

This is the sixth of six stories in a series by journalists Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance who travelled to the Cerrado in February for Mongabay to assess the impacts of agribusiness on the region’s environment and people.

Mongabay Environmental News • 26th March 2018

Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many

This is the fifth of six stories in a series by journalists Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance who travelled to the Cerrado in February for Mongabay to assess the impacts of agribusiness on the region’s environment and people. Driving up BR 020 into Luís Eduardo Magalhães, we’re greeted by huge soy storage silos, the property of Cargill, the transnational commodities company — leaving no doubt in anyone’s mind that we’ve arrived in the newest urban hotspot serving Brazil’s latest agribusiness

Mongabay Environmental News • 22nd March 2018

Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’

This is the fourth of six stories in a series by journalists Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance who travelled to the Cerrado in February for Mongabay to assess the impacts of agribusiness on the region’s environment and people. Barbed wire fencing – going up, and also torn down – are a sign of escalating tensions currently gripping rural areas of Formosa do Rio Preto, Western Bahia, Brazil. The municipality lies within the Cerrado, the vast Brazilian biome and savannah which is seeing rapid a

Mongabay Environmental News • 19th March 2018

Agribusiness may be killing Brazil’s ‘birthplace of waters’

This is the third of six stories in a series by journalists Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance who travelled to the Cerrado in February for Mongabay to assess the impacts of agribusiness on the region’s environment and people.

Mongabay Environmental News • 15th March 2018

Can soy coexist with savannah conservation?

This is the second of six stories in a series by journalists Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance who travelled to the Cerrado in February for Mongabay to assess the impacts of agribusiness on the region’s environment and people.

Mongabay Environmental News • 12th March 2018

Appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes

This is the first of six stories in a series by journalists Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance who travelled to the Cerrado in February for Mongabay to assess the impacts of agribusiness on the region’s environment and people. View a Cerrado series overview video here. We bounce down a potholed red sand road that cuts through a seemingly impenetrable green thicket that rises up on either side. It’s the wet season in Western Bahia state, Brazil, and the Cerrado blossoms. The long undervalued v

WNYC Studios • 26th April 2018

Audio: Harvard Endowment Linked to Land Grab in Brazil

Podcast reports on the connection of Harvard University with land grabbing in Brazil - based on our original investigation.

Mongabay Environmental News • 17th April 2018

Audio: Impacts of agriculture on Brazil’s Cerrado region

On today’s episode: the impacts of agriculture on Brazil’s Cerrado region. Brazil’s Cerrado region is incredibly biodiverse, supporting more than 10,000 plant species, 900 birds, and 300 mammals. But it has long been overlooked by scientists and environmentalists alike, and as protecting the Amazon has become more of a priority in recent decades, much agricultural production in Brazil has moved from the rainforest to the vast Cerrado savannah. In February, Mongabay sent journalists Alicia Prag

Brazilian Media | Colaborações para o Brasil

National Geographic • 14th April 2020

Jovens indígenas sofrem impacto mais agressivo do coronavírus que a média brasileira na mesma faixa etária

Elo mais frágil entre povos que sobrevivem a desigualdades históricas, crianças e adolescentes indígenas representam 5% das vítimas da covid-19 em suas comunidades.

Dialogo Chino • 7th October 2020

O turbulento processo de habilitação de frigoríficos de carne para a China

No credenciamento, Hong Kong e China pedem ainda breve descrição do rastreamento dos bovinos, ou seja, dados das fazendas que fornecem o animal vivo aos frigoríficos. O objetivo é garantir a qualidade sanitária desde a origem do boi, mas, se reforçada, poderia servir como ferramenta contra a compra de áreas onde há desmatamento ilegal.

Projeto Colabora • 27th January 2016

Onda verde para bicicletas na Dinamarca

Após nossa primeira viagem, olhei para aquela bicicleta de segunda mão recém-adquirida e profetizei: nos daremos imensamente bem ou terrivelmente mal durante este ano.

BBC News Brasil • 17th January 2016

Oito lições de combate à corrupção que a Dinamarca pode dar ao Brasil

Desde que o índice foi criado, em 1995, o país está nas primeiras posições – em que estão as nações vistas como menos corruptas. Nos últimos cinco anos, só não esteve no primeiro lugar em 2011, que ficou com a Nova Zelândia. Esse é o segundo ano consecutivo em que está sozinha no topo.

Projeto Colabora • 27th February 2016

As garotas dinamarquesas

Com quatro indicações ao Oscar, o filme “Garota Dinamarquesa” trouxe de volta aos holofotes a história até então esquecida do casal de pintores dinamarqueses Einar e Gerda Wegener, interpretados por Eddie Redymane e Alicia Vikander, cuja relação foi combustível para avanços na arte e nas discussões de gênero no início do século XX.

The ‘forgotten’ people picking your Brazil nuts

Photography and reporting at the Kaxarari indigenous territory for The Guardian and Diálogo Chino - Brazilian Amazon, 2021

O Globo • 3rd August 2014

Especial Tabaco: outro lado sombrio

Investigação revela que pequenos agricultores sofrem intoxicação com a folha do tabaco. O trabalhou o Prêmio do Ministério Público do Trabalho de Jornalismo em 2015, entre outros. -----------------------------------Investigation reveals that small farmers suffer from intoxication from tobacco leaves. The work was granted journalism awards in Brazil.

Reporting from Sertão, 2018