-
Published in: Home: InvestigationModern-day Scrooges: Corporations give ‘small change’ in charity stunts
Coca-Cola and Amazon among giants that hand over a fraction of their profits as part of promotional stunts
-
Published in: Home: FeatureDisplaced, poisoned, jailed: Climate change survivors confront world leaders
Climate chaos is destroying these people’s communities. They travelled to COP27 to demand justice for loss and damage
-
Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationA green paradox: Deforesting the Amazon for wind energy in the Global North
A shift to wind energy is leaving a trail of destruction in Ecuador, with a brutal impact on Indigenous communities...
-
Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionBolsonaro’s empty climate promises for Brazil
As Bolsonaro claims to protect forests, his leadership has allowed devastation of the Amazonian jungle to reach epic heights
-
Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe US is taking on its corporate monopolists – now the rest of the world must follow
As Joe Biden’s administration starts to challenge the democracy-warping powers of giant multinationals, Britain and...
-
Published in: democraciaAbiertaFate of the Piripkura tribe in the hands of agency taken over by Bolsonaro
Last remaining family members rely on Brazil’s Indigenous land protection orders for survival. With the protections...
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsBig Tech firms paying below minimum wage left off UK government’s name-and-shame list
Deliveroo, Uber and Amazon were excluded because couriers are classed as self-employed, but legal experts say...
-
Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionSpace: the final frontier for the planet’s wealthiest?
Space travel was once about collective efforts to go beyond the limits of one’s imagination. Now it’s an exhibition...
-
Published in: democraciaAbiertaMiners out, COVID out: Brazil’s Yanomami fight back
The Yanomami people in the Brazilian Amazon have been fighting the plague of extractivism for decades. Then the...
-
Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationHow oil, cocaine and armed conflict threaten the survival of the Awá people
'In our territories, the entry of different people and companies exploiting resources is advancing'
-
Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationTucupi, a spicy sauce to stop Amazon deforestation
In the Colombian Amazon, Indigenous women are planting chillies to end their communities' reliance on the cattle...
-
Published in: democraciaAbiertaIn the Colombian Amazon, Indigenous people resist threats to their territory
Communities are trying to make their voices heard as mining companies and illegal prospectors eye up the region’s...
-
Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureThe Amazonian Indigenous communities fighting 'balsa wood fever' and COVID
The extraction of balsa wood is a plague spreading through the Ecuadorian Amazon, and loggers have brought the...
-
Published in: democraciaAbiertaWe're hiring: fellowship focused on the Brazilian Amazon
Apply to be part of openDemocracy's Latin American section and develop an investigative project on the Amazon and...
-
Published in: 50.50: InvestigationDozens of anti-LGBT groups fundraising on Amazon despite equality pledges
Revealed: Online shopping giant – whose profits have soared during COVID-19 – has given a platform for many US...
-
Published in: democraciaAbiertaErasmo Theófilo: Amazon defender in danger
Erasmo Theófilo, a family farmer and defender of the riverine community and family farmers of Anapu, Brazil, has...
-
Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhat would a state-owned Amazon look like? Ask Argentina
Correo Compras promises to benefit workers, consumers and sellers, and could even use big data for the public good.
-
Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe Covid-19 smoke curtain grows in Latin America
The Covid-19 pandemic has ravaged Latin America during the last nine months. The region has suffered a severe...
-
Published in: democraciaAbiertaJosé Gregorio: Either we preserve the Amazon rainforest, or the planet will take revenge
For José Gregorio, an indigenous from the Colombian Amazon region, training young people to fight for the...
-
Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionBrazil burns as we fight for life
The international community can help Brazilians by monitoring the unfolding of the environmental crisis and the...