Tag: Brazil
Monsanto wins $7.7b lawsuit in Brazil – but farmers’ fight to...
Karine Eliane Peschard, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
A Brazilian appeals court has decided in favor of Monsanto,...
The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest
Catesby Holmes, The Conversation
Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season that has charred 1,330 square...
How social media is helping Big Tobacco hook a new generation...
Robert Kozinets, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Big Tobacco is increasingly using social media to find new ways to hook...
Venomous yellow scorpions are moving into Brazil’s big cities – and...
Hamilton Coimbra Carvalho, Universidade de Sao Paulo
I live in São Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil, home to some 12 million people – 20...
Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike under Bolsonaro
Robert T. Walker, University of Florida
Over the past 25 years that I have been conducting environmental research in the Amazon, I have witnessed the...
Bolsonaro’s anger won over working-class Brazilians, but his presidency may betray...
Benjamin H. Bradlow, Brown University
Brazil’s next president Jair Bolsonaro, who takes power on Jan. 1, is often called the “Trump of the Tropics” for...
Beyond #MeToo, Brazilian women rise up against racism and sexism
Alvaro Jarrin, College of the Holy Cross and Kia Lilly Caldwell, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Women’s empowerment recently got a big...
In Brazil, religious gang leaders say they’re waging a holy war
Robert Muggah, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
The expression “evangelical drug trafficker” may sound incongruous, but in Rio de Janeiro, it’s...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
