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Interactive timeline documenting the socio-environmental crisis in Brazil since 2018. In PT @FumacaSinal Access our report on mining: https://t.co/4t4r5Nz5gI
Jun 13, 2022 21 tweets 8 min read
The case of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira is not isolated. It's the result of government decisions that dismantled environmental protections & regulations in Brazil. We searched our timeline to help put things into context. Scroll down for some emblematic cases of the past 3 yrs Jan 2020: A year into Bolsonaro's administration, the NGO Human Rights Watch stated that the lack of government actions in Brazil gave "carte blanch" to criminal networks in the Amazon

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Aug 31, 2021 22 tweets 26 min read
🌎 The @IPCC_CH report stated earlier this month: Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying

From mammoth hurricanes to severe flash floods, see where went under water on Earth August 2021 🧵⬇️

#ExtremeWeather #ClimateAction
#HurricaneIda 📹 @NOAA / @SPACEdotcom 🇲🇽 Aug 7 Mexico - Coahuila and Durango

At least 42 homes were damaged or destroyed and 200 people directly affected

[See where went underwater on Earth Aug 2021🧵⬇️]
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction

via @Flood_List
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Aug 30, 2021 23 tweets 19 min read
🌎🔥 Early this month the @IPCC_CH report stated: "Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying"

From Siberia to the Amazon, see where fires raged on Earth August 2021 🧵⬇️
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
📹 #Caldorfire via @SPACEdotcom 🇬🇷 Aug 3 - Greece

100+ forest fires in 24hrs, thousands evacuated.
– "We are no longer talking about climate change but about a climate threat"

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave

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Aug 19, 2021 26 tweets 11 min read
(Almost) all you need to know on:
- The case in the Brazilian Supreme Court that will decide the fate of the land Ibirama-Laklãnõ
- The "Time Frame" thesis
- How struggle of the Xokleng-Laklãnõ for the right to exist can impact indigenous peoples throughout the country 🧵👇 Image Before start, we recommend you register for the international event we supported together with various organizations, tonight 6 pm EST: with indigenous leaderships from Brazil and the USA @GuajajaraSonia @luizeloyterena @nickwestes and @leo_crippa +

Jul 21, 2021 21 tweets 12 min read
Yesterday we looked at fires raging on Earth in July 2021.
Today take a look at extreme weather water related events

Here is where went under water on Earth July 2021 🧵⬇️

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis 🌊
Image from @NASARain 🇯🇵 Japan:
9 dead, 21 missing

[This is the extreme weather water related events thread: See where went underwater in July 2021🧵⬇️]
#ClimateCrisis #ExtremeWeather
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Jul 20, 2021 13 tweets 12 min read
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It is fire season in Canada, Russia, Spain, Cyprus, various parts of the US, various parts of Brazil... From Siberia to the Amazon, this is the fire thread:

See where fires are raging in July 2021 🧵#ClimateCrisis #extremeweather ⬇️ euronews.com/green/2021/07/…

This is the fire thread: See where fires are raging in July 2021 🧵#ClimateCrisis #extremeweather #Siberia +
Jul 20, 2021 16 tweets 6 min read
Through a study originally published at @Nature, we've recently learned that parts of the Amazon Rainforest now emit more carbon than it absorbs.

South-North – East-West: See how the news spread throughout the world
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#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction 🇷🇺 Russia:
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Jul 12, 2021 9 tweets 4 min read
Think of pesticides being dropped from airplanes on children to force rural communities off their land.

This is not the description of a dystopian reality in which some evil agribusiness model rules. It is Brazil 2021.

Come with us to learn more: 🧵
#ClimateCrisis #Pesticides Image In the first thread of this series, we explained a little of the context that made Brazil the biggest consumer of highly hazardous pesticides (HHP) in the World:

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Jul 8, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
🇧🇷☠️🌎 In 2008, Brazil –the world's largest exporter of coffee, soybeans, and beef– became the world's largest consumer of pesticides, a situation that has worsened under Bolsonaro's administration.

But why? And who benefits from it?

Come with us ⬇️
#ClimateCrisis Image The explosion of pesticides in Brazil began in 1965, during the military dictatorship, when the National Rural Credit System linked agricultural financing to the purchase of chemicals. +
Jun 5, 2021 10 tweets 8 min read
🇧🇷📡This week, Brazil broke two more –rather alarming– records:

Historic increases in deforestation, and historic increases in land conflicts. Come with us to untangle the unfortunate record breaking track keeping environmental protectors awake at night🧵

#WorldEnvironmentDay The Pastoral Land Commission @cptnacional published its 2020 report. Violence in rural areas reached an all time high: 1576 occurrences of conflicts over land, since 1985, when the reporting began. Also a 25% increase to 2019 and 57.6% to 2018.
#ConflictsInTheFieldBrasil2020
Jun 2, 2021 4 tweets 4 min read
The Coordination of Indigenous Organizations in the Brazilian Amazon– @CoiabAmazonia –Covid-19 May 30th Bulletin:

🚨 668 Suspected cases (in May 2021)
🚨 38.848 Confirmed cases (since March 2020)
🚨 946 Deaths
🚨 152 Indigenous Peoples affected

#IndigenousLivesMatter Image The chart below details the impacts in the 9 states that make up the Brazilian Amazon and which peoples were affected in each of them:

#IndigenousLivesMatter #Brazil #HumanitarianCrisis
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May 26, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
🚨 Alert: Bill to be discussed in Brazilian Congress this week is grave threat to existence of indigenous reservations, as assault on Amazon protections continues. What is at stake?

⬇️Thread (1/5)
📷Andressa Zumpano

#PL490NÃO #TerraIndigenaFica #ClimateCrisis #Brazil The proposal changes the Statute of the Indian (1973) and updates PEC 215, allowing the suppression of indigenous rights guaranteed in the Constitution, among them, the permanent possession of their lands and the exclusive right over their natural resources. (2/5)
May 24, 2021 5 tweets 4 min read
📡Entries to the timeline [05/18 - 05/22]

➡️Brazil environment minister targeted in wood-smuggling probe; 🇧🇷 🇺🇸
➡️The rapidly deteriorating situation in Yanomami Indigenous Territory;⏳
➡️Amazon Deforestation hits record high in April;🌎

#HumanitarianCrisis #ClimateEmergency Data from @Imazon shows that deforestation in the Brazil portion of the Amazon Forest reached a record high of the last decade this past April: 220 mi² of native land - the size of the city of Chicago - was lost in one month.

#ClimateEmergency