Tag: Amazonian
She takes the fight to the Amazonian gold hunter
By: Helena Nordenberg/TT Published: Less than 20 min ago Lawyer and congresswoman Joênia Wapixana, staring straight at the camera, takes up the fight against gold miners in the Amazon after…
She takes the fight to the Amazonian gold hunter
Facts: Joênia Wapixana As the first female lawyer from Brazil’s indigenous population, Joênia Wapixana, born in 1973, is used to being in the thick of things. She was also the…
Scientists have discovered that the huge Amazon basin is sensitive to rapid climate change
New findings upend assumptions about how the landscape of the Amazon Basin was shaped. It could have gone from erosion to construction in just a few tens of thousands of…