Brazil News » Roraima News Brazil » Roraima: Mount Roraima: The 'lost world' isolated for millions of years that Indigenous people call the 'house of the gods'
Why it's incredible: The mountain looks like a floating island from the sky. Mount Roraima is a plateau with near-vertical sides that sits on the triple border point between Brazil, Venezuela and ...
News Brazil » Roraima: Brazil preps auction for non-interconnected state of Roraima
The procurement is planned for May 16 and will award 15-year PPAs to projects based on conventional and renewable energy generation. Solar could help remove the state’s reliance on power generated by ...
News Brazil » Roraima: Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state
As infrastructure projects and soy plantations pump up land values in the Brazilian Amazon, smallholders are selling up and moving to more distant frontiers, perpetuating a cycle of displacement and ...
News Brazil » Roraima: Brazil and Venezuela: A Storm Brewing in Roraima?
Amid this tension, politicians escalated their rhetoric, calling for drastic measures such as capping immigration from Venezuela and closing the border. When the federal government refused to pursue ...
News Brazil » Roraima: Why Brazil's Yanomami are being decimated by disease, mining
An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in Brazil’s largest indigenous territory, which covers an area roughly the size of Portugal and stretches across Roraima and Amazonas states in the northwest ...
News Brazil » Roraima: Brazil’s Roraima state at mercy of 2019 wildfires as federal funds dry up
Brazil, and particularly the Amazonian state of Roraima, have seen large numbers of forest fires so far this year. From January through May, Brazil recorded 17,913 blazes nationwide, with 11,804 ...
News Brazil » Roraima: Roraima state has 45% of Brazil’s wildfires in February
The northern state of Roraima recorded 2,057 fire outbreaks in February this year, according to data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). The figure corresponds to 45 percent of all ...
News Brazil » Roraima: Solar-plus-storage gets its share in Brazil’s auction for non-interconnected state of Roraima
Solar-plus-storage gets its share in Brazil’s auction for non-interconnected state of Roraima Although only two of the nine projects selected in the auction are for hybrid biomass-solar power plants ...
News Brazil » Roraima: A Brazilian Judge Has Closed the Border to Stop People Fleeing From Crisis-Hit Venezuela
Venezuelan refugees queue outside the UNHCR's Jardim Floresta Camp, in Boa Vista, Roraima state, north of Brazil on May 3, 2018. A judge in Brazil has blocked Venezuelan migrants from crossing the ...
News Brazil » Roraima: Brazil talks energy supply in Roraima
Brazil’s National Defense Council met today (Feb. 27) with Mines and Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque to discuss the provision of electric energy to the northern state of Roraima, in the Brazilian ...
News Brazil » Roraima: Brazil votes: Amazon loggers hope for Bolsonaro victory
This is the third in a three-part series on Roraima in the context of Brazil’s general elections. The project was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Journalism Fund. Rorainopolis, Brazil – ...