A bilingual collection of poems in English and Portuguese on the delicate state of our natural environment, covering topics ranging from desertification to the destruction of our rainforests along with floral and faunal species and ecosystems though fires, pollution causing greenhouse effect and the melting of polar caps, earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons, volcanoes, mudslides, and tsunamis. POEM-VIRONMENT marks the coming of age of poet and scholar Glauco Ortolano