Tag: Brazil
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...
How Lula evolved from Brazil’s top politician to its most notable...
Terry L. McCoy, University of Florida
Brazilians watched along with the rest of the world as one of the country’s leading federal judges ruled that...
Brazil plunges once more into political crisis, jeopardizing economic recovery
Terry L. McCoy, University of Florida
Brazil’s massive corruption scandal – which has brought down dozens of politicians and business leaders – has...
Why Brazil is winning its fight against corruption
Paul F. Lagunes, Columbia University and Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale University
Last month, the respected Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki died in a plane crash....
In Rio’s bulldozed _favelas,_ echoes of America’s shantytowns
Lisa Goff, University of Virginia
The 500,000 tourists expected to attend the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will see a dazzling city, miles...
EXPLORING NATURE
Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal
Logan S. James, The University of Texas at Austin; Rachel Page, Smithsonian Institution, and Ximena Bernal, Purdue University
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