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Gabriela Sá Pessoa discusses political and environmental issues in Brazil, artificial intelligence, and being a journalist at MIT. The Brazilian reporter is a fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies.

By eliminating forests, we limit the number of products we can manufacture from wood. Unfortunately, one of those products is toilet paper.

On the eve of Earth Day 2023, let's take a sobering look at earth's future. Cataclysmic events are soon coming will affect large swaths of humanity, and most of the shifts will be irreversible – Once they occur, there will be no way to undo them. Therefore, if humanity was a wise species, we would be doing everything in our power to prevent these cataclysmic events from happening.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and President Joe Biden met in Washington this week. But whatever they discussed, the top of their agenda should be filled by a push for collaboration on energy production, the prevention of deforestation, and countering China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Brazil's foreign relations ministry had formalized Belem as a candidate to host COP30.

Rainforest lost an area roughly the size of Qatar, more than 11,000 square km

Brazil's presidential election on Sunday may determine the fate of the Amazon jungle, the world's largest rainforest, after deforestation soared in the past four years under President Jair Bolsonaro. He faces off against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has pledged to stop all Amazon destruction and act aggressively on climate change. Protecting the Amazon is vital to stopping catastrophic climate change because of the vast amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas it a...

Between January 1 and September 15, 2022, the Brazilian Amazon has lost More than 400 Million Trees, According to Data from the PlenaMata Forest Monitor

Capital, brasilia, to demand further relaxations to firearms laws. president bolsonaros son, eduardo, whos a federal deputy, told the crowd that if people were armed, criminals would think twice. staying in brazil, deforestation in its part of the amazon rainforest has hit a six—year high. an area five times the size of new york city was destroyed in the first half of the year, according to data from the national space agency. campaigners blame president jair bolsonaro for rolling back environ...

In brazil, which authored the report on the scale of amazon deforestation. doctor, thank you so much for joining us. with regards to this report, what exactly have you found? give us an understanding of the scale of the defour. —— deforestation. this is a vision of how to make progress economically very, very old, you know, its like 50 years ago, the idea for economic development was destroying the forest, sell the wood, grate the cattle, sell the beef dust create the cattle. and after 2003,...