South America

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PART OF: Deforestation in the Amazon: Causes, Reflections, and Solutions

Audio: Pará Contained 44 Percent of the Deforestation in the Legal Amazon Between February and March (Portuguese)

Danielly Gomes
Amazon RJF Grantee

April 29, 2020
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PART OF: Deforestation in the Amazon: Causes, Reflections, and Solutions

Deforestation in Amazônia Increased 51 Percent From January to March (Portuguese)

Danielly Gomes
Amazon RJF Grantee

April 29, 2020
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Deforestation in the Amazon: Causes, Reflections, and Solutions

The fires in the Brazilian Amazon became news everywhere in the last half of 2019. They alerted to...

Danielly Gomes
Amazon RJF Grantee

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PART OF: Thirty Years Later: Brazil's Reconquered Democracy

Voices of the Forest | Marcos Terena (Portuguese)

Thiago Mendonça
Amazon RJF Grantee

April 28, 2020
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PART OF: Mercury Alert

New Study: Amazon Authorities Can’t Get a Grip on Mercury Trade

Bram Ebus
Rainforest Investigations Fellow

April 27, 2020
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Mercury Alert

Mercury, the toxic quicksilver that pumps through the veins of gold miners is a necessary evil to...

Multiple Authors

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PART OF: Speaking Out on Coronavirus

'Now It Was in My Lungs': Wake Forest Reporting Fellow's Account of Catching Coronavirus

Rafael Lima
Pulitzer Center Alum

April 27, 2020
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PART OF: Centinela: Probing Latin America's response to COVID-19

Paraguay Loses in the Global Race for Ventilators (Spanish)

Multiple Authors

April 24, 2020
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PART OF: The Science of COVID-19

Indigenous Communities in Brazil Fear Pandemic's Impact

Ignacio Amigo
Grantee

April 24, 2020
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PART OF: Colonial Roots of Gender-Based Violence in Guyana

More Than 50 Years Since Independence, Colonial Violence Plagues Guyana and Its Diaspora

Daja E. Henry
2019 Reporting Fellow

April 20, 2020
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Colonial Roots of Gender-Based Violence in Guyana

In Guyana, women are beaten and murdered at alarming rates. Activists have taken the fight against...

Daja E. Henry
2019 Reporting Fellow

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PART OF: Centinela: Probing Latin America's response to COVID-19

How Much Vital Information Are Latin American Governments Sharing With Their Citizens During the Pandemic? (Spanish)

Multiple Authors

April 19, 2020