Indigenous Artists Occupy Bahia’s Museum of Modern Art
Indigenous artists staged a ‘retomada’ (reclaiming what is theirs) during an exhibition at Salvador’s Museum of Modern Art of Bahia.... Read Article
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Brazil’s Amazon is Now a Carbon Source, Unprecedented Study Reveals
The Amazon has long done its part to balance the global carbon budget, but a new study has revealed it is now emitting more carbon than it captures.
For indigenous protesters, defending the environment can be fatal.
Adán Vez Lira, a prominent defender of an ecological reserve in Mexico, was shot while riding his motorcycle in April.... Read Article
Bolsonaro Puts Brazil Military in Charge of Fighting Amazon Destruction
This story originally appeared in Reuters.com and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration... Read Article
REVIEW Dengue Dengue Dengue – Semillero
“Semillero is music that moves souls, allows imaginations to flourish and the feet to follow”. As Pete Buckenham’s African-inspired electronic label On... Read Article
Cultural Memory in the Americas: Immemorial
Immemorial is a new film-in-the-making about the natural environments of the Americas and the cultural memory of its people. As... Read Article
REVIEW Embrace Of The Serpent
Ciro Guerra’s Oscar nominated third feature picks up where his second, 2009’s The Wind Journeys (Los Viajes del Viento), left... Read Article
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
With The Invention of Nature (subtitled The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science) Andrea Wulf makes... Read Article
PREMIÈRE: Os Descordantes Address Struggles of Brazil’s LGBT Community in Latest Video “Hoje de Manhã”
Musically speaking, Brazil’s Amazon region has a reputation for its musicians “leaving for the big city”, as they say of... Read Article
Secrets of the Rio Negro by Stan Davis
Stan Davis’ Secrets of the Rio Negro is a boy’s own paper piece of adventure fiction. Slash and Burn The... Read Article
REVIEW Dona Onete – Feitiço Caboclo
To introduce her by saying that Dona Onete is a 73-year-old singer who has just released her début album, doesn’t... Read Article
REVIEW Mestre Cupijó e Seu Ritmo – Siriá
If you were to listen to some instrumental tracks from this compilation without reading any reviews about it, including this... Read Article