Tag: environment

Resumption creates jobs in the city, but maintains model that produces structural problems

Five years later, people affected live and fall ill in temporary housing while waiting for collective resettlement

Also featured: Solidarity feeds the hungry as food prices soar and foreign funds flow to violators of indigenous rights

Bento Rodrigues and Paracatu de Baixo are experiencing construction delays; in Gesteira they haven’t even begun

Government’s plan for the region conflicts with native populations’ culture and serves the interests of foreign capital

Also featured: public schools return to classes prematurely as wildfires rage and the president redirects funds

Such is the analysis coming from social movements that work directly with those affected by the sector’s activities

Also featured: Aid for small family farmers, online healthcare for isolated communities and environmental cinema

Also featured: the Shout of the Excluded, evictions in Brazil’s largest city and Covid-19 in native communities

“The rise in deforestation is a consequence of the weakening of enforcement agencies”, affirms expert