This is the corner of piauí’s website where you can read a selection of articles translated into English – on topics both Brazilian and international – and get a sense for the magazine’s style and voice. Updated periodically.
in English
The world without the Amazon
A climate model predicts the effects of turning the forest into cattle pastures: 25% less rain in Brazil and higher temperatures, with “catastrophic” consequences for agriculture and energy production
João Moreira Salles e Bernardo EstevesSix conclusions about a model of the world without the Amazon
The price that Brazil and the world will pay if the forest continues to be cut down so that livestock can graze
Bernardo Esteves e João Moreira Sallesmore stories
The fake hermit
An investigation into American writer Thomas Pynchon, who has never given an interview in his 54-year career
The wave
Reconstructing the tragedy at Mariana, the largest environmental disaster in Brazilian history
The oil is theirs*
The story of the multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against Petrobras in the United States
Looking for Leff
How an American economist offered an innovative explanation for Brazil’s backwardness – and then disappeared
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