SAO PAULO, Brazil – Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has experienced its largest blazes on record in the first four months of the year, with the environmental workers union on Monday placing partial blame on lower government spending on firefighting. Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has staked his international reputation on protecting the Amazon rainforest … Read more
Pirá Paraná, Colombia – Chewing on psychoactive coca leaves in a traditional ritual, Colombian Indigenous leader Fabio Valencia seeks the advice of jungle spirits and ancestors about a project sold to his community as a planet-saving initiative. In a remote corner of the Amazon — far from COP28 in Dubai, where world leaders will thrash … Read more
MANAUS, Brazil – The Amazon rainforest’s record-breaking drought hit home for Raimundo Leite de Souza one October morning, he said, when he woke to find the stream that runs behind his house had dropped nearly a foot overnight, stranding his skiff in a mudflat.As weeks passed, Souza said, rotting fish washed up on the banks … Read more