Powered by RebelMouse

dom phillips

Top Tweets
A multiracial group of protesters hold signs in support of science.
Four white boats traveling on river beside Big Ben in London
A collection of buildings with antennas built on black lava rocks at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i.
Bottles of chemicals on a shelf
EXPLORE
Copyright © RebelMouse 2017
Causes
violent crime in the Amazon
Amazônia Real/Flickr

Brazil police: Businessman ordered killings of men in Amazon

Brazilian police said Monday they planned to indict a Colombian fish trader as the mastermind of last year's slayings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips.

Causes
yanomami woman child indigenous brazil
commons.wikimedia.org

Revealed: Brazil goldminers carve illegal ‘Road to Chaos’ out of Amazon reserve

Aerial photos from reconnaissance mission reveal effort to smuggle excavators into Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory.

Causes
Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira's deaths show the Amazon's destruction
www.flickr.com

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira's deaths show the Amazon's destruction

Journalist Dom Phillips was following Indigenous rights activist Bruno Pereira when both men disappeared along a remote river.
Newsletter
After two murders, a Brazilian Indigenous leader steps up the fight
commons.wikimedia.org

After two murders, a Brazilian Indigenous leader steps up the fight

In an interview with e360, Beto Marubo, a leader of Brazil’s Indigenous Amazon people, discusses the recent murders of an activist and a journalist and excoriates President Jair Bolsonaro for opening Indigenous territories to a host of environmentally destructive activities.
Causes
Inside the Amazon journey that left a journalist and activist dead
commons.wikimedia.org

Inside the Amazon journey that left a journalist and activist dead

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira set off deep into the Amazon to meet Indigenous groups patrolling the forest. Then they vanished.
Causes
I knew the men murdered in the Amazon—and their alleged killer
commons.wikimedia.org

I knew the men murdered in the Amazon—and their alleged killer

The slayings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira mark a new escalation in the battle for the Amazon, its resources, and its Indigenous defenders.
Causes
Man confesses to killing journalist and activist and leads police to remains, police say
commons.wikimedia.org

Man confesses to killing journalist and activist and leads police to remains, police say

Dom Phillips, a freelance reporter for The Guardian, and Bruno Araújo Pereira, a Brazilian expert on Indigenous peoples, had been missing in the Amazon since June 5.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
The EPA building in Washington DC with several columns and glass pained doors and windows.

EPA’s direction under Trump draws criticism from former agency head

Wind turbines viewed from above situated in green agricultural fields.

Trump’s clean energy rollback puts U.S. manufacturers on edge

Greenpeace sign hanging on a wire with a tropical background.

Greenpeace faces financial peril in high-stakes lawsuit

MOST POPULAR
Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Climate scientist Michael Mann speaks at a podium with a porjection of the famous hockey Stick climate graph.

A climate scientist’s legal win just got flipped on its head

Gloved hands holding a globe of the earth with a small plant growing from the top.

Trump administration seeks to reframe climate change as beneficial

CLIMATE
A multiracial group of protesters hold signs in support of science.

Trump administration moves to dismantle EPA’s science office

Four white boats traveling on river beside Big Ben in London

UK seeks climate alliance with China amid Trump’s rollback of green policies