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GOOD NEWS FOR THE AMAZON? Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gives two thumbs up to the announcement that the state oil company P...

AMAZÔNIA: WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE? The above photo from NASA shows the concentrations of carbon monoxide (grey areas) hovering over Amazôni...

US Ethanol Subsidies Help Fuel Range Wars and Fires in the Amazon On Monday (11-05-07) US National Public Radio ran a feature segment on ...

SOY IN THE AMAZON Photo by Pat Joseph Pat Joseph, writing in the special South American edition of the Virginia Quarterly Review , has ...

PAKISTAN UPDATE In light of the state of emergency declared in Pakistan on November 3, 2007, Global Voices Online has set up a Special Cov...

SOUTH AMERICA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY The Virginia Quartery Review has produced a GREAT special edition on South America. Editor Danie...

WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS What a great title! Nope, I didn't create it. It's the name of a web site that provides quality english tran...

Santo Daime Information in English There's new web site from Europe providing lots of information about Santo Daime in English -- lots ...

Dot Earth I've been following Andrew Revkin's new blog at the NY Times. It's quite wonderful. Somehow, I feel a special conne...

Heart Song for a Hermit Once upon a time, not terribly long ago, I spent my summers with the "Great Standin...

Mandala das Águas. The country inn Mandala das Águas sits at the gateway to the Matutu Valley between the Lion's Head and Parrots' P...

Magical Matutu The Matutu Valley of southern Minas Gerais, Brazil is one of those magical places, almost mythic like a Rivendel or Shambala ...

Fibers of the Earth I've previously presented the work of Fios da Terra and my good friend Nina Michaelis at Fibers of the Earth . Now s...

This is Way Cool Jose Murilo has been my Internet guru in Brasilia. Once and a while I get to help out a little bit with translations and i...

Guided by the Moon Edward MacRae's history of the Santo Daime has been translated into English and is now available online as an e-book ...