Articles by Matt Rinaldi
Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1979, Matthew Rinaldi earned a BA in English from Fordham University in 2002. The following year he relocated to São Paulo, Brazil, where he would reside for 15 years. During that time, he learned the Portuguese language and developed a career as a translator specializing in contemporary art, culture, and photography, and working for some of the country's most prominent museums, cultural institutions, and publishing houses. Rinaldi also accumulated a scattering of writing credits, contributing chapters to Jonathan Runge's Rum & Reggae's Brasil, articles on the FLIP literary festival to Gobshite Quarterly, and a feature on the burgeoning urban farming movement in New York City to the Brazilian magazine RED Report. His literary translations have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Anomaly and Machado de Assis Magazine.
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers
- Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation
- Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds
- Logging, road construction continue to fuel forest loss in Papua New Guinea
Oceans
- Lebanese youths take up rods and reels to learn sustainable fishing
- Japan prepares to mine its deep seabed by decade’s end
- Communities worry anew as PNG revives seabed mining plans
- Huge new no-fishing zones give Antarctic marine predators and their prey a break
Amazon Conservation
- Agribusiness bill moves to block grassland protections in Brazilian biomes
- Amazon prosecutors get sharper impact tool to charge illegal gold dealers
- How to reward tropical forest conservation: Interview with Tasso Azevedo
- Lula’s deforestation goals threatened by frustrated environmental agents
Land rights and extractives
- Global cobalt rush drives toxic toll near DRC mines
- Under the shadow of war in the DRC, a mining company’s actions face impunity
- New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project
- Phantom deeds see Borneo islanders lose their land to quartz miners
Endangered Environmentalists
- Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park
- Vietnamese environmentalist sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion
- Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights
- Video: Five Tembé Indigenous activists shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
- In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
- After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists
Conservation Effectiveness
- The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)
- Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change
- Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity
- How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
- Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
- Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
- To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest