As the world pressures Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro to act, Robert Muggah of the Igarape Institute, a think tank in Brazil, has released a new too

This is one of a series of articles written by Young Global Leaders with action-oriented ideas to improve the state of the world by 2030

The Amazon Basin is fast approaching an irreversible tipping point

  EcoCrime Data shows how land grabbing, illegal logging, wildcat mining and the illicit wildlife trade are damaging our climate. It also reveals the many social challenges emerging from environment crimes, including corruption, slavery and violence at the eight countries of the Amazon Basin, one…

The Brazilian Amazon is rife with illegal gold mining operations, with 321 identified points of illegal, active and inactive mines arranged in the 9 states that comprise the Brazilian Amazon Basin. This devastation has a price — according to Brazil’s Federal Public Prosecutors Office, 1kg…

Mongabay caught up with Igarapé Institute co-founder Robert Muggah this week to discuss Ecocrime, a new data visualization platform that combines visual storytelling with access to raw data on environmental crime in the Amazon.

All coastal cities are vulnerable to climate change

One of the many injustices of climate change is it hits the world’s poorest countries hardest

Instituto Igarapé preparou o boletim “Avaliando as relações entre as mudanças climáticas e a segurança na África Ocidental”

Read the latest Igarape Institute article, in which Robert Muggah and Peter Schmidt analyze these complex relationships.