“Unpunished Excesses” is an investigative series developed by Convoca from the construction and analysis of the first database on the environmental obligations of the large mining and oil industry.
Tag: environment
Wall Street International: Who cares about those that defend us?
The difficult situation of environmental and social activists in Latin America and Colombia
Half of the environmentalists deaths in the world occurred in Brazil
Ranking held in 35 countries accounted for 908 murders between 2002 and 2013. In Brazil, 448 people were killed for defending the environment.
Agência Brasil: Federal Official Journal publishes calendar for environmental emergency
The Ministry of Environment has determined that, between May and December 2014, environmental emergency will be declared in central and southwestern of Amazonas State.
Chico Mendes was declared patron of the environment in Brazil
President today signed law that honors rubber tapper leader, assassinated 25 years ago in retaliation for his work on behalf of the forest.
Development Discord
In communities that will be affected by the dams in the Tapajós River, between anxiety and craving, misinformation prevails, while advancing the work plans.
Raging river
Waves swallow homes, fishes appear dead, while fishermen suffer from hunger. The Santo Antonio hydroelectric changed the river and life in Rondonia.
Why Vale was voted the worst company in the world?
In the same year that celebrated its 70th anniversary, the mining company also received an unwanted prize, proposed by social movements of the Amazon.
Dirty of carbon
In Açailândia, state of Maranhão, Pública follows the rescue of young people explored in coal plants. “They see this as slave labor, we did not even know.”
Pig-iron: value subtracted
Learn more about the industries that would bring development to the Amazon, but eventually associated with illegal deforestation and slave labor generation.