Brexit has produced yet another danger to our health – this time, around food safety
According to a new analysis by Pesticide Action Network (PAN UK), food brought into Great Britain contains a far higher...
Exploiting Brazil’s biodiversity: who’s profiting from this biopiracy?
At the COP16 UN biodiversity summit in Colombia, the role of genetic heritage in shaping Brazil's bioeconomy was a central...
BR-319: a highway to climate chaos in the heart of the Amazon
As Brazil prepares to host the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP30, the Brazilian government is sending a powerful...
Brazil’s biofuel boom: green growth or greenwashing?
Brazil's push to expand biofuels is central to its strategy to "drive the decarbonisation agenda" and build a robust "bioeconomy,"...
Capitalist projects in Brazil’s Amazon send suicide rates soaring among Indigenous People
Content warning: this article contains references to suicide, which readers may find distressing. Suicide is a major global public health...
Cabin contaminants: the dangerous truth about toxic air on planes
Since the 1950s, fume events have impacted the health of thousands of pilots, cabin crew, and passengers globally, as toxic...
EXPOSED: the NGOs that are complicit in the Amazon-wrecking BR-319 highway project in Brazil
The following investigation is by Monica Piccinini, Lucas Ferrante, and Philip Fearnside, and was originally published on 9 September, in...
China has its eyes on Brazil – but will this burgeoning BRICS partnership prove damaging for the Amazon?
Over the past few decades, China's investment in Brazil's Amazon region has significantly grown and broadened, particularly in sectors like...
New report finds toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in UK food
New research reveals that a significant number of commonly consumed food items in the UK contain persistent PFAS pesticides ('forever...
Belém’s environmental challenges: a glimpse into the COP30 host city
In the lead-up to hosting COP30 in 2025, Belém, the capital of Pará in northern Brazil, is confronted with a...
The BR-319 highway: a scientist’s call to action for the Amazon and beyond
Lucas Ferrante, researcher with a PhD in ecology from Brazil’s National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), has conducted multiple scientific...
The Amazon’s warning call: a potential epicentre for the next pandemic is emerging in the rainforest
Preserving the Amazon rainforest isn’t just an environmental concern; it’s a matter of survival. It’s the most biodiverse place on...
A silent threat in the skies: the under-reported dangers of ‘aerotoxic syndrome’
You may not have heard of aerotoxic syndrome, but for anyone who flies - be it as a passenger or...
A sobering Christmas reality: cocktail of hazardous pesticides in wine has tripled
Official statistics analysed by Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) reveal that the presence of harmful pesticide mixtures in wine...
Pantanal blaze: nature’s silent scream
Throughout this month, rampant fires engulfed the Pantanal in Brazil, one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands and home to...
The BR-319 highway: the Amazon’s Trojan Horse
The Amazon drought in Brazil is unleashing a wave of environmental, health, economic, and social disruptions in the region. But...
Brazil’s Yanomami People are facing another colonialist threat – this time from ultra processed food
The Yanomami are an Indigenous People of Brazil and Venezuela. The Brazilian state specifically and corporations have for decades violated...
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