Tag: Brazil
Amazon Rainforest deforestation at its worst – equivalent to the size...
While the new data still represents a 72 percent drop from 2004 when implementation of combative deforestation measures were put in place, the increased rate in the past 10 years has many worried.
Strongman: Jair Bolsonaro and the unexpected rise of the far right...
It remains to be seen if Fernando Haddad can rally the country to prevent a Bolsonaro presidency.
Why is the radical right still winning?
What that Protestant Reformation can teach us about the durability of far-right movements – and the order they seek to replace.
Brazil’s leading food retailer goes cage-free
This commitment will spare millions of egg-laying hens a life of extreme confinement in battery cages so small that the birds can barely move or stretch their wings.
Federal judge bans use of glyphosate in Brazil
The decision prohibits the registration of new products containing the herbicide and suspends existing registrations within the next 30 days.
Tropical forests lost 40 football fields of tree cover per minute...
That amounts to 40 football fields worth of trees cut every minute of last year in a devastating blow to biodiversity and the global climate.
After Lula, what’s next for Brazil?
The dream of more just and equal societies that the far from radical Lula represented for many seems further away than ever.
Brazilian school districts make historic switch to 100 percent plant-based meals
With the mission of reducing the cities' environmental footprint (especially water consumption), Brazil's goal is to aid local produce farmers and foster humane and healthy eating habits for students.
U.S. bans Brazilian beef imports
The United States Department of Agriculture suspended fresh beef imports from Brazil until the country “takes corrective action” to address “public health concerns, sanitary conditions, and animal health issues” in its cattle supply chain.
Brazil becomes the newest country to refuse GMO imports from the...
As of 2015 there were 38 countries that had banned GM crops.
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
The US-China tech race, resource wars, and the cost of militarization
Over the past decade, a steady and well-funded campaign has convinced the general public that China is the greatest threat to the safety and security of the American people.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?