My research in Pernambuco explores how Afro-Brazilian fishing and farming communities navigate (and grieve) changing access to the ocean and mangroves, disappearing marine life, and their increasingly polluted territories.

In light of ongoing social and ecological crises in Brazil, fellow members of the Brazil Natural Resource Governance Initiative reflect on pathways to equitable environmental governance.

Disinformation like the “war on coal” is often used to justify environmental destruction in Central Appalachia, but do communities believe it?