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Na véspera das eleições, Amazônia tem pior setembro em alertas de desmatamento da série histórica!
Em comparação à 2021 (985 km²), setembro de 2022 registrou 1.455 km², uma alta de 48% Registro feito em Cujubim (RO), na região da Amacro (Amazonas, Acre e Rondônia), em uma área com cerca de 8.000 hectares de desmatamento. © Nilmar … Continue reading
Global Extraction Film Festival – October 26-30, 2022 — Repeating Islands
The 3rd Global Extraction Film Festival (GEFF2022) takes place on October 26-30, 2022. Streamed online for free worldwide, the festival includes over 250 documentaries and urgent shorts from 50 countries highlighting the destructive impacts of extractive industries. The festival includes … Continue reading
The Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous Peoples and Wildlife in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 7 – « Totemic Light Sculptures – Yanomami shamanic chants – Mixed media art installation I » :49
Yanomami shaman struggle against xawara – the smoke of epidemics – art installation with sounds of many Yanomami shaman chanting to protect the community! The Yanomami shaman who fight the xawara epidemic diseases see their image appear in the form … Continue reading
Com 8,5 mil km² desmatados, Amazônia bate recorde nos 9 primeiros meses do ano!
Só em setembro foram 1.455 km² devastados, 48% a mais que em 2021; entre janeiro e setembro, o Cerrado teve aumento de 24% em comparação a 2021 Na Amazônia, entre 1 de janeiro a 30 de setembro, foram registrados alertas … Continue reading
Beyond Mascots and Casinos #NativeLivesMatter — Lara Trace Hentz
But beyond the slot machines, the movie sets and the football fields, there are other problems facing Native communities — insidious, systemic, life-or-death problems; the kinds of problems it takes years and votes and marches to resolve — that aren’t … Continue reading
The Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous Peoples and Wildlife in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 6 – « Totemic Sculptures – Grace Teshima Gallery Exhibit » 4:04
In « Totemic Sculptures – Grace Teshima Gallery Exhibit » textured paintings plus two totemic sculptures, one in canvas and one in metal, alternate with scenes of Yanomami life in the Amazon rainforest on a small screen. The elements of the two … Continue reading
Academia Brasileira de Ciências apresenta propostas para reduzir contaminação por mercúrio, desafio nacional!
Academia defende que garimpo ilegal seja banido no Brasil Garimpo ilegal faz subir a níveis perigosos os índices de mercúrio em peixes da Amazônia A Academia Brasileira de Ciências (ABC) define a contaminação por mercúrio como um desafio nacional que deve mobilizar … Continue reading
Newly Digitized Collection of Early 20th-Century Lakota Drawings Tells a Curious History — Lara Trace Hentz
The collection has been digitized by the Newberry Library, as part of its new open access policy. This slideshow requires JavaScript. In 1922, the Newberry Library acquired this collection of 160 drawings, attributed to “Sioux Indians” living in Fort Yates, … Continue reading
The Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous Peoples and Wildlife in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 5 – « The Forest is Burning – Art Installation » 5:22
« The Forest is Burning – Art Installation » alternates scenes from the « Fire Performance » burning of one of my totemic sculptures at the art space La Miroiterie in Paris with the « Fire Performance » burning of another of my totemic sculptures in … Continue reading
Desmatamento na Amazônia chega a quase 8 mil km² em 2022, pior acumulado em 15 anos — Ecoamazônia
Apenas em agosto, foram derrubados 1.415 km². Além disso, a degradação florestal causada pela extração de madeira e pelas queimadas cresceu 54 vezes O desmatamento acumulado na Amazônia já chegou a quase 8 mil km² apenas em oito meses, sendo … Continue reading