By: Corey Steinman The Amazon region is one of the most biodiverse areas in the world, functioning as a global climate stabilizer. It is also home to more than one million Indigenous people. Over time, the territory has faced difficult and complex changes, including government-sanctioned development projects to extract natural resources from the region and […]
By: Anthony Costa, 2L Culture has been the United States’ largest export since the world became globalized and intrinsically connected. American English is the most spoken form of English worldwide, over 118 countries and territories have McDonald’s, and American music inventions such as blues, jazz, country, rock and roll, and rap are listened to globally. […]
Photo Credit: REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli By: Elizabeth Arritola, 2L The Cerrado is a biodiverse savanna region in Brazil located southeast of the Amazon. Although the Cerrado is not as well-known as the Amazon, it houses over 800 bird species and almost 200 mammals, providing up to 30% of Brazil’s biodiversity. The Cerrado also has 60 vulnerable animal species. Many of […]
Photo Credit: Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS By: Damian Barquin, 3L United States President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced a historic Partnership for Workers’ Rights last month at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. The initiative sets to deepen the strong labor ties between the two nations. It promises to address five urgent […]
