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On Moday afternoon the sky was obscured by heavy smoke in São Paolo in the South of Brazil. Strong winds had blown the smoke over 2,500km (1550 miles) from the federal states of Amazonas and Rondonia in the North up to the South of the country. In July the area of the Amazon rainforest burnt down was four times higher than in the same month of the year before.

President Bolsonaro wants to open up the Amazon for economic development displacing and letting be murdered indigenous people. However now in the night towards Monday the nine affected federal states have called Bolsonaro´s attitude and the position of his government deplorable because Norway and Germany had put payments in the amount of Millions for the Amazon on ice because of the destruction.

petition: Tell Blackrock one of the world´s biggest asset management funds not to profit from destruction and to stop funding it: to the petition.

“Woman at War” — a very impressive film which is worth seeing.

Quem já se perguntou como o plástico acaba no sal da terra ou no sangue dos índios amazônicos deve agora ter uma explicação: Partículas de plástico foram detectadas na água da chuva das Montanhas Rochosas. Os microplásticos não apenas se levam pela chuva, mas também pelo vento e são inalados pelos pulmões. Na lavagem de roupas com fibras sintéticas, por exemplo, as fibras plásticas também são liberadas no meio ambiente, e não apenas por meio do lixo descartado sem cuidado. Poluentes como metais pesados e bactérias se acumulam nas partículas de plástico, muitas vezes já tóxicas.

Read about it yourself.