Monica Piccinini
@MAPICC2021
Freelance journalist focused on environmental, health, and human rights issues.
EXPOSED: the NGOs that are complicit in the Amazon-wrecking BR-319 highway project in Brazil. Environmental NGOs and philanthropic organisations should oppose projects that endanger biodiversity-rich areas. Please read and share! thecanary.co/long-read/2024…
Opening up the Amazon, hanging on by its fingernails as it is, to more logging, ranching and fragmentation by highways ahead of its Brazil's hosting of a crucial climate conference, COP30? You couldn't make it up.
Brazil under fire for weakening environmental rules ahead of COP30 climate summit. climatechangenews.com/2025/07/23/bra…
🔎GREAT PIECE BY Monica Piccinini @MAPICC2021 FROM @the_ecologist✅ 🔎The BR-319 threatens the Amazon in the name of ‘progress’ and politics. 🗞️Plans to reconstruct the controversial BR-319 highway have been formally announced and signed. #IMA #indymedia theecologist.org/2025/jul/22/hi…
Brazil under fire for weakening environmental rules ahead of COP30 climate summit. climatechangenews.com/2025/07/23/bra…
"BR-319 is an 885km stretch of road cutting through one of the last untouched areas of the Amazon rainforest. Connecting Manaus to Porto Velho, it cuts through pristine rainforest, Indigenous lands, and vital biodiversity" Many species threatened with extinction will be gone
My article for the @the_ecologist: Highway to hell. The BR-319 threatens the Amazon in the name of ‘progress’ and politics. theecologist.org/2025/jul/22/hi…
Vale reached the highest second-quarter output since 2021 at its most-prized operations in Carajas, in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. It also mentioned the ramp up of new assets including a plant in Minas Gerais state, where it has its oldest mines. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
BR-319: WE MUST UNMAKE THE ROAD TO OBLIVION.
My article for the @the_ecologist: Highway to hell. The BR-319 threatens the Amazon in the name of ‘progress’ and politics. theecologist.org/2025/jul/22/hi…
Brazil government increases ethanol mandate in petrol | Biofuels International Magazine biofuels-news.com/news/brazil-go…
My article for the @the_ecologist: Highway to hell. The BR-319 threatens the Amazon in the name of ‘progress’ and politics. theecologist.org/2025/jul/22/hi…
Don’t wait for the fire by @RogerHallamCS21 for @the_ecologist theecologist.org/2025/jul/21/do…
Human influence on Amazon’s aboveground carbon dynamics intensified over the last decade. nature.com/articles/s4146…
“The BR-319 threatens the Amazon in the name of ‘progress’ and politics” by Monica Piccinini monicapiccinini.medium.com/the-br-319-thr…
“The planet is a living entity, and we must redefine the story of who we are.” - Marcelo Gleiser Congress Enemy of the People @minc_rj @LulaOficial @MarinaSilva @GutaHegarty @DeepSeaConserve @SoooMagazine @todandara @celiaxakriaba @andretrig #PLdaDevastacaoNão #VetaLula
“O planeta é uma entidade viva, e nós temos que redefinir a história de quem nós somos. “ Marcelo Gleiser Congresso Inimigo do Povo @minc_rj @LulaOficial @MAPICC2021 @MarinaSilva @DeepSeaConserve @SoooMagazine @todandara @celiaxakriaba @andretrig #PLdaDevastacaoNão #VetaLula…
Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies has passed the ‘devastation bill’ allowing self-licensing of projects without environmental reviews. It now awaits president Lula’s approval or veto. Will Lula stand with environmental justice?
Israel’s plan to build a concentration camp in southern Gaza echoes the darkest chapters of history. The silence and inaction of world leaders make them complicit - stained with the blood of the innocent. We will not forget, and history will not forgive!
Open the fucking gates. Shame on every world leader for facilitating the starvation and death of Palestinians. Curse Netanyahu and his right wing govt to hell and beyond. Open the fucking gates and let the food aid in.
Crisp and drink giant #PepsiCo runs quirky ad campaigns enticing zoomers & millennials into a lifetime of #obesity and #diabetes. Yet few people know PepsiCo are linked to #indigenous #landgrabbing for #palmoil Take action! #Boycottpalmoil @palmoildetect wp.me/scFhgU-pepsico
In quantum mechanics, even a perfect vacuum isn’t truly empty. It has zero-point energy-constant fluctuations that mean empty space is filled with mysterious energy. A reminder that nothingness isn’t as empty as it seems.
Unpacking the risks of zoonotic and vector-borne pathogen transmission to humans in the context of environmental change. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
BREAKING: The only meal hospital staff in Gaza were receiving — provided by World Central Kitchen — has stopped. WCK has run out of food. Doctors, nurses, paramedics — already collapsing from exhaustion — now have nothing to eat. They are saving lives while starving. This is…
BIGGER CROPS - LESS NUTRIENTS Bigger crops, fewer nutrients: The hidden cost of climate change 10 July 2025, another research project finds that higher atmospheric CO2 makes some crops grow bigger, but not better. They become less nourishing, with fewer minerals, proteins, and…