Lodging prices skyrocket before COP30 in Brazil
Nine months ahead of this year's annual U.N. climate summit, known as COP30, lodging prices in the Brazilian host city of ...
USAID is going away. Here's what it's been doing in South America
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian ...
USAID is going away, and along with it cocaine-fighting efforts and Amazon rainforest protection
Colombia has long been the largest recipient of U.S. foreign assistance in South America. Recent USAID money has supported ...
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Stories of Resistance: How Indigenous peoples in Brazil fought COVID-19
Historic Indigenous leaders still fell. Chief Aritana Yawalapiti, who led his Xingu people for five decades. Paulinho Paiakan, of the Kayapó. Artist and healer Vovó Bernaldina… from the Macuxi tribe ...
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Handcrafted woodwork helps save an Amazonian reserve, one tree at a time
A community in the Brazilian Amazon is transforming fallen trunks and dead trees into everyday items and art pieces.
From the Amazon Rainforest to Rio Carnival: Why travellers fall in love with Brazil
Brazil captivates visitors with its vibrant culture, stunning beaches, the vast Amazon rainforest, the iconic Christ the ...
Amazon's advocates fear Trump's return means little US help to protect rainforest
Besides Trump's withdrawal already from the Paris climate agreement, advocates fear he'll cut U.S. funding for policing that ...
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Mongabay series on illegal timber and cattle wins honorable mention in Brazil journalism prize
By Mongabay.com Blood Timber, a Mongabay series on illegal logging and cattle ranching in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, has ...
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USAID is going away. Here’s what it’s been doing across the globe
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian ...
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A cattle ranch is the unlikely scene for saving a fox found only in Brazil
They appeared at dusk. The day was ending in a pink-and-yellow sky when a cub moved in the grass. Its mother appeared next, ...
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Rainforest Foundation US NGO plans strategic Bitcoin reserve
The Rainforest Foundation US “Treasury for the Trees” initiative aims to raise 100 BTC for a strategic Bitcoin reserve. RFUS executive director Suzanne Pelletier explains why. Strategic ...
From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rainforest, USAID has big impact across the globe
The Trump administration’s decision to close the US Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism from ...