by Beth Holmes | Feb 27, 2023 | Conservation, Sustainability
Deforestation in Brazil has already fallen by over 60% in the first month of President Lula’s administration, according to satellite data. During his first presidency from 2004-2010, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made preserving natural resources a...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 11, 2023 | Conservation, Profiles, Sustainability
Marina Silva, Amazon activist, is President-elect Lula’s choice for Brazil’s new minister of environment. Marina Silva grew up in the Amazon, working as child labor on a rubber plantation. As an adult, she has worked hard to undo the damage of the kind of...
by Beth Holmes | May 16, 2022 | Business, Conservation, Sustainability
Brazilian environmental organizations are demanding the U.S. follow through with promised funding for forest protection, and asking that they deal directly with them instead of go through the Brazilian government. Over 330 parties, including environmental and...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 28, 2022 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Petropolis, Brazil was devastated this week by landslides, with over a hundred dead. Petropolis is a mountain city in the Serra do Mar range in Brazil, with a population of over 300,000 people 40 miles upriver from Rio de Janeiro. And while landslides are an...
by Admin | May 10, 2019 | Conservation, Sustainability
You might not know it, but birds—and especially tropical birds—have “comfort zones,” too. And members of the same bird species can have drastically different responses to deforestation depending on how close to their comfort zone they live. According to research from...
