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Lawyers Press International Court to Investigate a ‘Network’ Committing Crimes Against Humanity in Brazil’s Amazon

A court filing details an unrelenting barrage of threats, torture and murders intended to drive rural people from the rainforest and speed the extraction of natural resources. In a novel strategy, lawyers argue that the crimes are linked to a coordinated web of politicians, business officials and gangs.

By Katie Surma

Mil Milhas na Amazônia, para Mudar a Maneira como o Mundo Funciona

By Katie Surma

A Thousand Miles in the Amazon, to Change the Way the World Works

By Katie Surma

Fires smolder in recently burned areas near the Taimá Ecological Reservation and the Paraguai river. The lack of rains in 2020 deepened a drought that allowed wildfires and burns intentionally set to clear land for farms and ranches to explode over an unprecedented amount of land in Brazil's Pantanal wetland that year. Credit: Pablo Albarenga

In Brazil, the World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Has Been Overwhelmed With Unprecedented Fires and Clouds of Propaganda

By Jill Langlois

Indigenous Land Rights Are Critical to Realizing Goals of the Paris Climate Accord, a New Study Finds

By Katie Surma

Backed by International Investors, Mining Companies Line Up to Expand in or Near the Amazon’s Indigenous Territories

By Katie Surma

The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault

By Georgina Gustin

Are Bolsonaro’s Attacks on the Amazon and Indigenous Tribes International Crimes? A Third Court Plea Says They Are

By Katie Surma

Indigenous Leaders and Human Rights Groups in Brazil Want Bolsonaro Prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity

By Katie Surma

As Nations Gather for Biden’s Virtual Climate Summit, Ambitious Pledges That Still Fall Short of Paris Goal

By Marianne Lavelle, Georgina Gustin, Nicholas Kusnetz

Climate Summit ‘Last Chance’ for Brazil to Show Leadership on Global Warming

By Augusta Saraiva

Ecocide: Should Destruction of the Planet Be a Crime?

By David Sassoon

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