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An igapó, a flood-prone wooded area on the Vuelta Grande of the Xingu River, with fruit on the dry ground. This is where the piracema, or fish reproduction,…
Read more Life or Energy: The Hydroelectric Dilemma in Amazonian BrazilOsnir da Silva Rubez prepares the furrows that will take water from the São Francisco river to irrigate his crops in the Brazilian Semi-arid ecoregion. He refuses to…
Read more A River’s Contrasts and Inequalities in the Arid Lands of BrazilLeide Aparecida Souza, president of the Association of Residents of the Genipapo Settlement in the rural area of Acreúna, a municipality in central-western Brazil, stands next to breads…
Read more Solar Power and Biogas Empower Women Farmers in BrazilAn Air Force plane brings home Brazilians who managed to escape the war in Gaza as part of a humanitarian operation. Airplanes shorten distances but pollute the atmosphere…
Read more Brazil’s Biofuel Potential Set to Expand Thanks to Sustainable Aviation FuelAn area of illegal mining activity was raided by the Brazilian Federal Police in the eastern Amazon on Jan. 17, where their precarious installations and housing, as well…
Read more Illegal Artisanal Mining Threatens Amazon Jungle and Indigenous Peoples in BrazilAn aerial view of Hacendita Cafubá, on the north shore of Piratininga, a lagoon in southeastern Brazil, when ponds that serve as a spillway and to collect sedimentation…
Read more Bringing the Piratininga Lagoon Back to Life in BrazilLigoria Felipe dos Santos poses for a photo on her agroecological farm that mixes corn, squash, fruits, vegetables and medicinal herbs. She is part of the women’s movement…
Read more ‘Passion Seeds’ Fertilize Brazil’s Semiarid NortheastA view of the Canoas Wind Farm, owned by Neoenergia, the Brazilian subsidiary of Spain’s Iberdrola. Several wind farms with hundreds of turbines have already been built in…
Read more The Dark Side of Wind and Solar Farms as Sustainable Energy in BrazilEronildes da Silva proudly stands next to a bunch of bananas on his farm, whose large size is the result, he says, of the effective fertilizer of reusing…
Read more Water Harvesting Boosts Agriculture in Brazil’s Semiarid NortheastLucineide Cordeiro loads manure from her two oxen and two calves into the “sertanejo” biodigester that produces biogas for cooking and biofertilizer for her varied crops on the…
Read more Biodigesters Boost Family Farming in BrazilIndigenous representatives like Raoni Metuktire, an internationally recognized Kaiapó leader, followed the Supreme Court trial on the temporary framework, inside and outside of the courtroom in Brasilia, in…
Read more A 1904 Massacre Could Help Save the Future of Indigenous Peoples in Brazilby Mario Osava (boa vista, brazil) Monday, February 06, 2023 Inter Press Service BOA VISTA, Brazil, Feb 06 (IPS) – Roraima, the northernmost state of Brazil, on the border…
Read more Video: Roraima in Search of Safe and Sustainable Energy AutonomySolar panels with a capacity to generate 30 kilowatts no longer work in the Darora Community of the Macuxi people, an indigenous group from Roraima, a state in…
Read more Solar Energy Useless Without Good Batteries in Brazils Amazon JungleA riverside park in Boa Vista, which would probably disappear with the construction of the Bem Querer hydroelectric plant, 120 kilometers downstream on the Branco River. The projection…
Read more The Energy Dilemmas of Roraima, a Unique Part of Brazils Amazon RegionAerial view of the Municipal Theater of Boa Vista and its parking lot covered by solar panels, near the center of a city of wide avenues, empty spaces,…
Read more Solar Energy Benefits Children and Indigenous People in Northern BrazilA view of the new Caucaia landfill, near Fortaleza, capital of the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil, which receives about 5,000 tons of garbage a day. It…
Read more Biomethane from Garbage: Turning a Climate Enemy into Clean Energy – VIDEO
