Appreciated the chance to work with Steve Gibbs on this piece. We talked with Indigenous & traditional river communities about how they're feeling about COP30 while oil drilling & new shipping channels are being approved, set to harm Amazonian communities, they say. www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...

I’m a bilingual US journalist based in Belém with years of experience reporting from the Amazon region. I hope to connect w/ editors for COP30 coverage. I speak Portuguese fluently, have widespread Amazon contacts w// experts & traditional communities' voices. Feel free to fwd @revkin.bsky.social

My article for Climate Home News, edited by the excellent Megan Rowling

My interview with Federal Prosecutor Felício Pontes on the Tocantins River in the Brazilian Amazon. Brazil’s federal government has a license to blow up an ecologically sensitive stretch, the Lourenção Rocks, to turn the river into a shipping channel. www.instagram.com/reel/DOLWVWv...

Emerging evidence suggests that deforestation in the Amazon is already altering South American monsoon patterns, resulting in drier conditions that may compromise the long term resilience of the rainforest. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My reporting for Climate Home News

Justiça suspende licença para obras em pedral no Rio Tocantins, no Pará ⬇️ Pedido havia sido feito pelo MPF, alegando que a permissão federal foi concedida sem cumprir condições legais e judiciais

Brazil plans to blow up a key Amazon biodiversity spot, the #LourençãoRocks. A judge just suspended the license until a complete ruling is made on federal prosecutors' suit to overturn the license. An August judge's visit to the rocks' impacted traditional communities was set. #hidrovia

Brazil plans to blow up a key Amazon biodiversity spot, the #LourençãoRocks. A judge just suspended the license until a complete ruling is made on federal prosecutors' suit to overturn the license. An August judge's visit to the rocks' impacted traditional communities was set. #hidrovia

Journalist and current Sacatar Fellow Tiffany Higgins has published an article discussing the shortcomings of carbon credit policies in Pará and highlighting how traditional quilombola and indigenous communities are being sidelined in negotiations. www.climatechangenews.com/2025/06/08/p...

Brazilian meat giant JBS has claimed that the company's net-zero emissions pledge was "never a promise." These comments are a clumsy attempt to evade accountability and to wash its hands for its outsized impact on the planet. mightyearth.org/article/migh...

Licenciamento da Hidrovia Tocantins-Araguaia está “repetindo os erros da Belo Monte”, diz MPF ⬇️ Em audiência pública, MPF afirma que licença prévia do empreendimento foi ilegal, pede desculpas às comunidades impactadas e cobra do DNIT e do Ibama a correção do processo oeco.org.br/reportagens/...

PA: Mais de 50 organizações denunciam o projeto de criação da Hidrovia Araguaia-Tocantins (HAT) Leia na íntegra: anovademocracia.com.br/pa-mais-de-5...

MPF pede anulação de licença de obra que viabiliza hidrovia Tocantins-Araguaia ⬇️ Órgão quer barrar explosão do Pedral do Lourenço, berço de espécies ameaçadas e afirma que não houve consulta pública prévia, livre e informada como determina a legislação oeco.org.br/salada-verde...

Absolutely insane environmental destruction about to commence in Brazil's northeast Amazon: dredging and dynamiting 500kms of the Araguaia-Tocantins rivers. Why? Shipping channels. But there hasn't even been a feasibility study!!! @naomiaklein.bsky.social www.braziloffice.org/en/articles/...

Article by @tiffanymhiggins.bsky.social; more here atmos.earth/afro-brazili... news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Absolutely insane environmental destruction about to commence in Brazil's northeast Amazon: dredging and dynamiting 500kms of the Araguaia-Tocantins rivers. Why? Shipping channels. But there hasn't even been a feasibility study!!! @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.braziloffice.org/en/articles/...

In the Brazilian Amazon, a Feb 5 judicial decision stated incorrectly that no traditional river peoples live on the Pedral do Lourenço From my reportage & visits to communities on this unique rock formation in the Tocantins River, I can verify that traditional river peoples do indeed live here.

Canadian mining co. Belo Sun hasn't conducted consultation with Indigenous & traditional peoples, and the mining project on the Xingu River can't go forward without that, according to the ruling of Brazil's TRF1 last week. (Like US Court of Appeals, for 13 Brazilian states).

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Climate flooding in Brazil's South causes big agribusiness to try to make up their losses with new plantations in the Amazon

"We are the sacrificed." In the copper-mining region of Antofagasta in Chile, the world's top copper producer, doctors are blaming mining pollution for soaring numbers of children being diagnosed with autism. cleanenergyfrontier.climatechangenews.com/doctors-rais...

I'm going to post this again because I have a bunch of new followers and it's well worth reading. news.mongabay.com/2024/12/braz...

Brazil’s Amazon shipping plan faces criticism for environmental and social impact news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Brazil’s shipping channel plans in Amazonian rivers will worsen climate change, experts warn #politics #brazil #environmentalism #ClimateChange news.mongabay.com/2024/12/braz...

Brazil's shipping channel plans in Amazonian rivers will worsen climate change, experts warn ->Mongabay | #Water #River #ClimateChange | More info from EcoSearch