Philip M. Fearnside

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Oil and gas project threatens Brazil’s last great block of Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 9 Mar 2020

PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

Brazil’s new deforestation numbers confirm the “Bolsonaro Effect” despite denials (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Nov 2019

As Amazon deforestation in Brazil rises, Bolsonaro administration attacks the messenger (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 Aug 2019

Brazilian Amazon deforestation surge is real despite Bolsonaro’s denial (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 29 Jul 2019

Brazil’s Sinop Dam flouts environmental legislation (Commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 1 Mar 2019

Financiers to discuss hydropower as climate-change mitigation, but dams are not ‘clean energy’ (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 26 Feb 2019

Will President Bolsonaro withdraw Brazil from the Paris Agreement? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 31 Jan 2019

Amazonia and the setbacks of Brazil’s political moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Oct 2018

Damming the Amazon unfettered after Brazilian purge (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 14 May 2018

Indigenous lands at risk, as Amazon sellout by Brazil’s Temer continues (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 6 Nov 2017

Amazon dam defeats Brazil’s environment agency (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Sep 2017

Amazon mining unleashed (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 15 Sep 2017

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