by Lucas Itaborahy | 19/03/2026 | News
By Lucas Guaraldo* Carmem Lúcia Barbosa da Silva lives in the community of São Francisco do Poraquê, in the municipality of Mojuí dos Campos, in western Pará. Since the beginning of 2026, she has been restoring 89 hectares of her property by planting açaí, cumaru,...
by Sara Leal | 16/03/2026 | Conservation, News
Sara R. Leal* The Legal Amazon has 9 million hectares that can be legally deforested on private properties, according to analysis by IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute). This area is equivalent to the size of the state of Santa Catarina. To curb legal...
by Amazoniar Consultor | 12/03/2026 | Amazoniar (EN), News
Lays Ushirobira * Safeguarding the Amazon is vital to ensuring food security for billions of people worldwide, says IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) in the second episode of the “Living Library” series by Amazoniar. According to Olivia Zerbini,...
by Sara Leal | 09/03/2026 | News, One and a Half Degrees
Sara Leal* An award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience covering environmental issues, Paulina Chamorro leads Vozes do Planeta (Voices of the Planet), a pioneering podcast on environmental issues in Brazil. She is one of the founders of the...
by Bibiana Garrido | 06/03/2026 | News
Unprecedented calculation shows that Bolsa Verde directly contributed to a 30% drop in deforestation in participating areas from 2012 to 2015 Deforestation avoided in the period totals 22,600 hectares; emissions avoided amount to 8.3 million tons of carbon dioxide...
by Maria Garcia | 23/02/2026 | News, One and a Half Degrees
By Maria Garcia* In this 69th edition, the Um Grau e Meio newsletter speaks with Fernando Sampaio to unpack the key points regarding the sustainability (or lack thereof) of Brazilian agribusiness. Fernando is an agronomist who graduated from ESALQ/USP (Luiz de...
