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Brazilian state of Amazonas enters the most serious phase of COVID-19

January 14, 2021 By Izabel Santos

The coronavirus pandemic in Amazonas state has reached the highest level in Brazil's color-coded severity rankings system.

New Amazonian Atlas reveals that a third of the rainforest is threatened

December 23, 2020 By Special to People’s World

Julia Jacomini from the Amazonian Network of Socioenvironmental Information (RAISG) puts the latest data about the rainforest into perspective.

Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami leader and shaman, elected to Brazilian Academy of Sciences

December 21, 2020 By Mônica Nunes

From December 2018 to April 2019, the Yanomami people were the subject of an extraordinary exhibition in São Paulo, The Yanomami Struggle, by photographer Claudia Andujar and the Moreira Sales Institute [IMS] which presented the Yanomamis’...

Indigenous people block Trans-Amazon Highway protesting industrial drought

December 2, 2020 By Movimento Xingu Vivo para Sempre

In 2020, the Middle Xingu region suffered one of the most severe droughts of the past 50 years.

Coronavirus report from Brazil: Yanomami mothers beg for their babies’ bodies

November 24, 2020 By Eliane Brum

Three women are living a nightmare for which it will be necessary to invent a name.