The Guardian • 29th October 2024

Solar power to the people: how the sun is bringing light – and TV – to Amazon villages

At dusk, Piyulaga village starts to wake up. Families gather at the entrances of their huts, children play and cycle around, and Brazilian country music fills the air as lights flicker on in the small settlement in the Xingu Indigenous territory of Mato Grosso, Brazil.

The New York Times • 29th October 2024

The New Threat to Brazil’s Forests: Chemicals

Brazil’s satellites did not detect anything alarming. Yet down on the ground, the trees were dying.

Dialogue Earth • 29th October 2024

Solar power is turning the tide on energy inequality in the Amazon

At the height of the day, the relentless sun and heat of the Amazon plunge the village of Piyulaga into a sleepy silence. Those who aren’t fishing or harvesting manioc in the distance find refuge in the shade of thatched huts, with even the birds and insects seemingly taking cover.

The New York Times • 5th May 2024

Madonna Brings Massive Free Concert to Rio, Capping Celebration Tour

When Madonna stepped out onto the mammoth stage constructed on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach on Saturday night in a gleaming halo headpiece and black kimono, she was greeted by the largest live crowd of her four-decade career.

The Guardian • 9th April 2024

Epidemic fears as 80% of Indigenous Amazon tribe fall ill

More than 100 Indigenous people in Brazil’s Javari valley have been diagnosed with flu-like symptoms, raising fears that the situation could escalate into an epidemic.

The New York Times • 14th December 2023

Brazil’s Congress Weakens Protection of Indigenous Lands, Defying Lula

While Brazil vows to fight climate change, lawmakers approved a law making it harder for Indigenous tribes to block deforestation, overriding a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The New York Times • 27th August 2023

A fourth-grader in Brazil

What does an average day look like for Elloá de Oliveira Ramos?

The Guardian • 5th June 2023

Jump in child deaths reveals impact of industrialisation on Amazon’s Indigenous peoples

The infant mortality rate among the Indigenous peoples of Brazil jumped by 16% last year, according to new data, as experts warn that the expansion of legal and illegal extractive industries in the Amazon rainforest has had profound effects on the health and quality of life of Indigenous people living in unprotected areas.

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.

The New York Times • 20th February 2024

Strongmen Find New Ways to Abuse Interpol, Despite Years of Fixes

For years, strongmen and autocrats had a novel weapon in their hunt for political enemies. They used Interpol, the world’s largest police organization, to reach across borders and grab them — even in democracies.

The New York Times • 22nd August 2023

A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul

The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.

15th September 2022

De floresta a mercadão de soja

Sinop é a sigla para Sociedade Imobiliária no Noroeste do Paraná. Essa foi a empresa que desmatou a terra e fundou a cidade que hoje leva seu nome. Partimos de lá para contar como o governo militar estimulou a ocupação da Amazônia por agricultores pobres e como a cidade enriqueceu até se tornar o epicentro do principal produto de exportação brasileiro: a soja.

19th September 2022

Seis bois para cada morador

Nos anos 80, o Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária dividiu as terras de Guarantã do Norte em assentamentos para distribuir entre os pequenos agricultores. Mas faltou apoio para a agricultura familiar. Hoje, a cidade vive da produção e exportação de carne bovina — o principal vetor do desmatamento da Amazônia.

22nd September 2022

Tudo começa pela madeira

Saindo do cais de Santarém, seguindo pelo rio Tapajós até o Arapiuns e percorrendo o rio quase inteiro, chegamos até Cachoeira do Aruã. Estamos numa comunidade ribeirinha conhecida pelo turismo e também por ser um polo madeireiro, apesar da floresta nativa nas margens do Arapiuns. Portos madeireiros são o ponto de partida de enormes balsas carregadas com toras de madeira — legais e ilegais.

26th September 2022

Um lugar tranquilo para viver

Ao sul de Santarém e Itaituba, fica a Província Mineral do Tapajós: uma região de 90 mil quilômetros quadrados rica em ouro e outros minérios. Em um desvio, entramos na Transgarimpeira, uma via transversal à BR-163. Ela começou a ser construída em 1983 pelo governo militar e atualmente os quase 200 quilômetros de estrada têm garimpos de ambos lados. Essa atividade econômica é, hoje, uma das principais causas da degradação de terras públicas da Amazônia, sobretudo terras indígenas. Pouco regulamentada, vem exacerbando as tensões fundiárias na Amazônia.

29th September 2022

O futuro da Amazônia em jogo

Longe da Amazônia, da complexidade de seus conflitos e do dia a dia de seus habitantes, o destino da floresta é decidido em reuniões, comissões e tribunais de Brasília. A capital federal é o principal palco político das batalhas pelo futuro da Amazônia e onde o velho modelo de ocupação é continuamente renovado. Mas é também na capital federal que a resistência acontece, e novos modelos econômicos são discutidos.

The New York Times • 19th November 2023

After Eras Tour Triumphs, Taylor Swift Finds Trouble in Brazil

Thousands of fans had already traveled to the stadium in Rio de Janeiro by the time the show on Saturday was called off because of safety concerns.

Dialogo Chino • 1st November 2023

Historic drought in the Amazon, explained

For around two months now, a severe drought has been ravaging the west of the Brazilian Amazon and reaching across the border to other South American countries that share the rainforest.

The New York Times • 10th May 2023

David Miranda, Gay Rights Activist and Snowden Ally in Brazil, Dies at 37

Emerging from Rio’s slums, he helped Edward Snowden reveal classified documents and lobbied for his asylum before rising to his country’s Congress.

The New York Times • 17th May 2022

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.

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.

2nd April 2022

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.

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