Brazil holds 12% of the world’s freshwater reserves and yet growing water insecurity reveals some of the country’s deepest sanitation inequalities, which are particularly relevant to Marajó, its largest coastal island.
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Researchers explain how trees in the rainforest efficiently recycle water through rain to keep themselves hydrated in the dry season.
Indigenous children are taught jungle lore and survival skills from an early age.
A very tight election victory, a divided country and an economy in tatters.
Broken Spectre, an immersive, 74-minute-long moving image work, is having its world premiere at the NGV.
Illegal roads have brought deforestation, fire and other environmental damage to the Amazon. The results of the 2022 presidential runoff could have a major impact for the future.
There are telling parallels between the current pandemic and those that decimated indigenous populations in the post-Columbian era in the Amazon.
The Amazon’s largest dam is nearly complete. But the social and environmental costs of huge hydropower projects are just not worth it.
Three researchers studied the “crop raiders” of the Brazilian rainforest in the hope of aiding both local farmers and wildlife conservation.
Land animals were able to find refuge in the depths of the forest. But aquatic species weren’t so lucky.
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Professor of Statistics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
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Professor of Tropical Conservation Ecology, University of East Anglia
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Researcher in Indigenous Ethnology, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém
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