Tag: Amazon Rainforest

Investing in Brazil

Two Brazils, One Algorithm

What AI in Education Looks Like from São Paulo to the Amazon eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, September 13, 2026 – If Celeste Labuschagne’s central warning about South Africa is that good intentions without infrastructure and guidance produce stalled initiatives, Brazil offers something rarer: a live experiment in what happens when a country tries to do both at…
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Morpho Well

Oil Under the River’s Mouth

Petrobras Strikes Amazon Crude, and a Reef Nobody Fully Understands Braces for Impact eyesonbrasil On the afternoon of August 14, 2026, Petrobras told the world what it had spent thirteen years and hundreds of millions of dollars chasing: there is oil at the bottom of the Amazon River’s mouth. Electric logs and rock samples pulled…
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Ernst Götsch Syntropic Farming

After the moratorium

Can a Swiss farmer’s forest logic save the Amazon’s edge? eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 14, 2026 – For nearly twenty years, one quiet agreement did more to slow Amazon deforestation than almost any law on the books. Signed in 2006 by the world’s biggest grain traders — Cargill, Bunge, Cofco, Louis Dreyfus — the Amazon Soy…
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Amazon Fires

Brazil’s high-stakes bet: can the Amazon stay under 0.5%?

eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 13, 2026 – Look closely at a satellite map of the Amazon and a pattern jumps out immediately: the forest isn’t eroding randomly. It’s eroding along an edge — a scorched, fragmented arc that traces the southern and eastern rim of the basin, spilling from Brazil into Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. Deforestation…
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Ouro Preto

Brazil’s Rise

How a Nation of Culture and Color Became the World’s Tourism Comeback Story eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 7, 2026 – There are moments when a country’s story shifts — when the world stops seeing it through old assumptions and starts seeing it as it truly is. For Brazil, that moment is now. Between 2019 and 2025,…
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Belém do Pará

A Digital Giant at the Forest’s Doorstep

What Belém’s New Data Center Means for Pará eyesonbrasil On the outskirts of Belém, a quiet construction site is about to become one of the most contradictory symbols of Brazil’s new digital economy. Elea Data Centers, in partnership with the energy supplier AXIA, has announced BEL1: the Amazon’s first major data center built for artificial…
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The Price of a Ton of Air

How Carbon Credits Work, and Why Brazil Holds the World’s Best Hand eyesonbrasil Somewhere in the Brazilian state of Acre, a hectare of rainforest that didn’t get cut down this year just became a financial instrument. It has a serial number, a registry entry, and a buyer somewhere in Rotterdam or São Paulo who will…
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