>"Brazil’s northeast, long a victim of droughts, is now effectively turning into a desert. The cause? Climate change and the landowners who are most _...Read More_

This is one of the most cogent anti-capitalist pieces I have ever read. If you're not convinced after reading this, then you never will be. And your existence is forfeit (by your own making).

Banner image: Recent fires in the Brazilian Amazon, along with logging and other human activities, have intensified the forest’s transformation to a carbon source, according several scientific studies. Image courtesy by Sergio Vale/Acre _...Read More_

"The Awa, who have been called "the most threatened tribe on earth", face fresh challenges in Brazil."

"Preserving Latin America’s forests is vital to fight the climate crisis and deforestation is lower in indigenous _...Read More_

It’s hard to articulate the scale of destruction being wrought upon the Amazon, but here are some topline figures to give an idea.

"Destruction of the world’s largest rainforest in 2020 rose 9.5 percent from a year earlier according to government data."

Campaigners say visit was ‘media propaganda’ as officials failed to stop at any devastated rainforest areas.

"Brazil’s carbon emissions surge, moving away from its 2025 target."

The Amazon is home to more than 30 million people, and almost all who live outside the very few large cities rely to some degree on the great forest as a source of medicines.

[https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/29/americas/brazil-revokes-mangroves-protection-climate-intl/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/29/americas/brazil-revokes-mangroves-protection-climate-intl/index.html) >"Brazil has revoked key regulations protecting its tropical mangroves, a move fiercely criticized by environmental and climate _...Read More_

>"The discovery of new relationships between trees and woody vines (lianas) was published this week in the Journal of Ecology by researchers _...Read More_

As they scorch one patch of trees after another, the miners carve deep pits into the cleared land to extract gold. Many of these excavations encroach on protected land near the clearings, destroying even more of the forest cover the people _...Read More_