Mining companies seek to expand into Brazil’s indigenous territories
The search for new mining areas is expanding into Brazil’s indigenous territories, amid rising mineral revenues and exports, as well as incentives from Jair Bolsonaro’s…
Read MoreThe search for new mining areas is expanding into Brazil’s indigenous territories, amid rising mineral revenues and exports, as well as incentives from Jair Bolsonaro’s…
Read MoreLong Island residents and their allies seek environmental justice after decades of pollution. As you drive down East Woodside Avenue in Brookhaven, New York, a…
Hundreds of tons of carcinogenic agrochemicals, including DDT, were abandoned by the Brazilian government at a factory near an orphanage on the outskirts or Rio…
The petrochemical industry has found a new market for fossil fuels: Plastics. With dozens of new plastics manufacturing and recycling facilities in the works, the…
There seems to be a working assumption that if Australia adopts tougher environmental policies, our economic growth will be undermined. But new research finds the…
Most of the world’s countries support these global agreements on conservation and pollution, but the United States is noticeably absent. In one of his first…
Deforestation is amplifying climate change effects in the Brazilian Cerrado savanna biome, making it much hotter and drier. Researchers observed monthly increases of 2.24°C (4.03°F)…
Climate change, avers Rex Tillerson, ex-CEO of ExxonMobil and erstwhile US Secretary of State, “is an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.” This brief…