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Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
23 hours ago

Colombia convenes climate coalition of the willing' to break global fossil fuel deadlock

Colombia is hosting a global conference to transition away from fossil fuels amid rising energy prices and geopolitical tensions.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

We took clothes, a blanket and a dog': the people displaced by a dam 50 years ago, but still fighting for justice

The Itaipu hydroelectric dam construction displaced the Ava-Guarani people, disrupting their territory and culture, with ongoing struggles for justice and recognition.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

Exploring the green side of Rio de Janeiro: a vast urban rain forest

Tijuca National Park offers a unique urban rainforest experience with waterfalls and diverse wildlife amidst Rio de Janeiro's bustling city life.
#climate-change
fromThe Conversation
3 days ago
Philosophy

Searching for a 'technofix' to climate change has many dangers. Could radical humility save the planet?

Technological solutions to climate change may pose unforeseen risks and dangers to the planet.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago
Environment

Quit fossil fuels to stem deadly floods in Brazil's coffee heartland, say scientists

Record floods in Brazil's coffee region caused by extreme rainfall will intensify with continued fossil fuel burning, threatening lives and global coffee prices.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Quit fossil fuels to stem deadly floods in Brazil's coffee heartland, say scientists

Record floods in Brazil's coffee region caused by extreme rainfall will intensify with continued fossil fuel burning, threatening lives and global coffee prices.
#conservation
#colombia
fromFortune
4 days ago
Agriculture

Colombia approves plan to kill cocaine hippos roaming through center of country | Fortune

fromFortune
4 days ago
Agriculture

Colombia approves plan to kill cocaine hippos roaming through center of country | Fortune

London politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Part of our souls': the fight to stop the New Forest being split in two

Residents of the New Forest protest against government plans to split its administration, fearing loss of rural identity and control.
Film
fromInverse
6 days ago

In This Brazilian Dystopia, An Elderly Woman Fights For Her Freedom

The Blue Trail depicts a dystopian society where the elderly are exiled to improve productivity, challenging perceptions of aging in film.
Photography
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

Portraits of the magic of Serra Grande, the bastion of Brazil's Atlantic Forest

The region of Serra Grande in Brazil showcases biodiversity and resilience amidst industrial threats and loss of traditions.
Environment
fromNature
1 week ago

Biodiversity resilience in a tropical rainforest - Nature

Tropical forests face severe threats from human activities, necessitating urgent conservation efforts to restore biodiversity and ecosystem services.
#argentina
Madrid food
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

Farmers Describe Torture From US-Ecuadorian Joint Military Operation

The US is escalating military operations in Latin America, particularly against drug cartels, under 'Operation Total Extermination' and 'Operation Southern Spear'.
fromRealagriculture
3 weeks ago

Biofuels, Brazil, and the cost of war: Suderman outlines key forces shaping grain markets

"I think it surprised me how easily people are swayed by headlines," says Suderman, noting that wartime information flows are often strategic and conflicting. "You have to learn in a wartime to take everything with a grain of salt in the context of what you observe."
World politics
Pets
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Eight arrested for brutal' attack on capybara in Brazil

Eight people were arrested in Rio de Janeiro for brutally beating a capybara, highlighting extreme animal cruelty in society.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

If they pollute our rivers, what will become of us?': the town divided between hope and fear in Brazil's Amazon oil rush

Oiapoque, Brazil, is poised for development through oil production, raising concerns about environmental impacts and Indigenous rights amid a global energy transition.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
3 weeks ago

The Brazilian House That Turns a Hillside Into a Feature - Yanko Design

The design follows a longitudinal layout, which makes complete sense once you understand what the architects were trying to accomplish. By stretching the house along the slope rather than fighting it, the building naturally orients itself toward the mountain views in the valley below.
Design
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 weeks ago

At least eight killed as Brazilian police carry out lethal favela raid

Military police chief Marcelo Menezes Nogueira said that the raid resulted in a major armed confrontation. Dos Santos and six other suspected criminals were killed, and a local resident was reportedly caught in the crossfire after being taken hostage.
World news
#brazil
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago
World politics

They want to colonise us': Brazil's Lula warns of foreign interference

Brazilian President Lula criticizes US colonial approaches in Latin America and its interventions in countries like Cuba and Venezuela.
fromNew York Daily News
2 years ago
World news

Brazil cyclone leaves at least 21 dead, over 1,600 displaced

An extratropical cyclone in Rio Grande do Sul killed at least 21 people, displaced over 1,600, and destroyed hundreds of homes across roughly 60 cities.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

They want to colonise us': Brazil's Lula warns of foreign interference

Brazilian President Lula criticizes US colonial approaches in Latin America and its interventions in countries like Cuba and Venezuela.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

These connections are overlooked': how British companies profited from slavery in Brazil long after abolition

The case is one of the most notorious examples of British involvement in illegal enslavement in Brazil, said historian Joseph Mulhern and a stark symbol of how, even after the UK Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, British citizens and companies profited from slavery in Latin America's biggest country for another half century.
History
fromHarvard Business Review
1 month ago

How To Deliver on ESG Initiatives in Emerging Market

Multinational firms are under rising pressure-from investors, regulators, and employees-to demonstrate positive societal impact in the places where they do business. With ESG-focused institutional investments projected to reach nearly $34 trillion this year and roughly 90% of large U.S. companies now disclosing ESG reports, these pressures are now a central part of corporate strategy.
Business
Arts
fromwww.dw.com
4 weeks ago

Amazonia's Indigenous peoples dismantle Western cliches

European depictions of the Amazon as a timeless wilderness ignore its cultural diversity and historical complexity.
Agriculture
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Agriculture of life': the Rio families growing bananas to protect the world's largest urban forest

Quilombola communities in Rio de Janeiro preserve banana cultivation traditions while contributing to biodiversity in the Pedra Branca state park.
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

The 'Logic of Brazil,' in 160 Minutes

The sad-eyed research scientist might be, as the title suggests, some kind of spy, perhaps working to undermine the U.S.-backed military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to 1985. The film's amber light and ample bell-bottoms situate it firmly in the late 1970s, a time of repressive dictatorships and jittery paranoia, triggered by political malfeasance and instability across the world.
Film
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Ecuador Is Suspending the Bank Accounts of Environmental Activists

Financial strangulation, as he put it, is the latest weapon in the government's escalating effort to clear the way for expanded mining and oil development in one of the world's most biodiverse countries. Months earlier, officials had temporarily frozen the accounts of several of Ecuador's most prominent environmental defenders, including Tapia, citing investigations into unjust private enrichment and financing terrorism.
Social justice
Environment
fromwww.cbc.ca
3 weeks ago

Why environmental advocates are speaking out against a planned development in northeast Pickering | CBC News

Environmental advocates oppose a planned development in northeast Pickering due to concerns about flood risk, water quality, and endangered species.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

It creates a sense of belonging': Brazil bets on hiking trails for conservation

The idea that hiking trails are a tool for conservation is based on a simple premise: people protect what they know. That requires making conservation areas accessible. There's no point telling people you only protect what you know, if you don't give them the tools to know. The trail is this tool. People who hike, people who camp, these people often become defenders of the environment.
Travel
Agriculture
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Villagers on Principe, the African Galapagos', to be paid for protecting the ecosystem

Principe islanders receive quarterly dividends for following environmental protection codes, with nearly 3,000 participants receiving their first payment of €816, creating economic incentive for conservation.
Environment
fromHigh Country News
4 weeks ago

The BLM wants to ramp up logging. Oregonians aren't so sure. - High Country News

The BLM plans to increase timber harvesting on 2.5 million acres in western Oregon, including protected old-growth forests, citing wildfire management and Trump administration timber production directives.
fromwww.dw.com
3 months ago

How the EU-Mercosur deal could hit the climate

After a majority of EU leaders gave the green light last week to the free-trade deal that was 25 years in the making, von der Leyen said it would "create more business opportunities" and "give [European] companies better access to critical raw materials." Once approved by the European Parliament and ratified by both the EU and Mercosur, the massive accord often dubbed a "cows-for-cars" trade deal will open up markets on both continents to almost all goods, including cars, machinery and chemicals from Europe.
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Environment
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Chile's President Kast tosses out dozens of environmental protections

Chile's new President Jose Antonio Kast suspended 43 environmental regulations covering emissions, pollution, and national parks to prioritize economic growth and job creation over environmental protections.
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 months ago

Pinheiro Farm / Equipe Lamas

Among the wooded hills of the Sao Paulo countryside, Fazenda Pinheiro reaffirms that architecture can evolve in dialogue with time.
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#natural-disasters
fromCN Traveller
2 months ago

In Brazil's Costa Verde, local communities are tapping into the ancient stillness beneath their town's thrum

I remember this as I wend my way from Brazil's colossus, São Paulo, to the coastal enclave of Paraty on the Costa Verde, driving through tunnels of Atlantic Forest that filter blinking bars of light. Floral scents surf on warm air through the open window. The legendary Afro-Brazilian singer-songwriter of the 1960s Tropicalismo genre, who went on to become Brazil's first culture minister to advocate for national diversity, has performed at festivals in Paraty.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Mining's toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst?

A tailings dam collapse at a Chinese copper mine in Zambia released over 50 million cubic liters of acid and heavy metals into the Kafue River, causing widespread environmental devastation, water supply shutdowns, and agricultural destruction affecting millions of people.
World news
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The US and Europe are courting Brazil for its critical minerals and rare earth elements

Brazil aims to become a strategic processor and participant, not just a raw-material supplier, for critical minerals like graphite, niobium, nickel, lithium, and rare earths.
Social justice
fromNature
2 months ago

My professor said 'Black people are not interested in the environment'. I set out to prove him wrong

Dorceta Taylor pioneered research, programs, and leadership to document and advance racial diversity, inclusion, and environmental justice within environmental science and conservation.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Austerity hinders fight against wildfires in Argentina's Patagonia

Milei's austerity cut Argentina's fire-management budget by 71%, weakening wildfire response amid massive Patagonia fires that have burned over 450 sq km.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Death toll in Brazilian floods rises to 46 as rescuers continue search

Floods in Brazil's Minas Gerais state have killed 46 people, displaced 3,600 residents, and left 21 missing, with search operations ongoing in affected towns.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Portugal fined 8.7m by EU court for failing to protect biodiversity

Portugal faces a €10 million fine and €41,250 daily penalties for failing to protect 55 biodiversity sites required under EU environmental law since 2019.
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

How protecting nature could make the world safer

Ecosystem collapse poses direct national security threats through food insecurity, resource scarcity, and geopolitical instability across continents.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The river won': how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway

The river won, the forest won, the memory of our ancestors won, said the campaigners in Santarem when it was clear their actions had forced the Brazilian government into a U-turn on plans to privatise one of the world's most beautiful waterways and expand its role as a soy canal.
Environment
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

'These are dirty funds': Indigenous Brazilian leader slams Science Museum for oil sponsorship ahead of climate show

BP's sponsorship of the museum has long drawn ire, in part because the oil company pursues an "all out for oil and gas" strategy, including plans to exploit deep drilling at the recently discovered Burmerangue site off the coast of Brazil. The project has been criticised by campaigners and oil and gas unions due to its threat to ocean ecosystems, elevated carbon dioxide levels, and lack of revenue flowing back into the Brazilian economy.
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Brazil's soy industry gives deforestation a green light

A moratorium that has protected vital rainforest since 2009 is on shaky ground as several players from Brazil's soy industry say they are pulling out. Specifically, the Brazilian industry association ABIOVE, whose members include global companies such as Cofco International, Bunge, Amaggi and JBS, have said they will no longer refrain from growing soy on deforested land. Environmentalists fear this could fuel a new wave of Amazon logging.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Postcard-pretty and filled with pollution: how Brazil's fishers are reviving Rio de Janeiro's famous bay

Raw sewage and solid waste flow into the bay from surrounding cities, home to more than 8 million people. Cargo ships and oil platforms chug in and out of commercial ports, while dozens of abandoned vessels lie rotting in the water. But at the head of the bay, between the cities of Itaborai and Mage, the environment feels different. The air is purer, the waters are empty but for small fishing canoes, and flocks of birds soar overhead.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Nearly 200 arrested in cross-border crackdown on gold mining in Amazon

Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon region, authorities said. The operation was backed by Interpol, the EU and Dutch police specialising in environmental crime. It involved more than 24,500 checks on vehicles and people across remote border areas and led to the seizure of cash, unprocessed gold, mercury, firearms, drugs and mining equipment, Interpol said.
Environment
Environment
fromSocial Media Explorer
2 months ago

Entorno Law and the Role of Public Interest Law in Protecting Communities and the Environment - Social Media Explorer

Public interest law ensures accountability and enforces environmental and consumer protections to safeguard public health, community welfare, and natural resources while promoting sustainability and fairness.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Pure apocalypse': a photographer's journey through the Pantanal wildfires

A documentary photographer documents catastrophic Pantanal and Amazon fires, chronicling environmental destruction, wildlife loss, and ongoing return visits to record the aftermath.
Environment
frombigthink.com
1 month ago

Widening the frame: Indigenous land rights and the future of climate policy

Indigenous land rights are essential to climate action, with Indigenous representatives at COP30 demanding recognition of their ancestral land ownership and management authority.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Floating cities of logs: can the lungs of Africa' survive its exploitation?

Millions depend on the Congo River basin for livelihoods while facing dangerous river travel, corruption, and threats to biodiverse forests that trap massive carbon.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

UK supermarkets push for Amazon soy safeguards after traders abandon ban

Retailers seek new mechanisms to prevent Brazilian soy-linked deforestation after the moratorium collapsed, urging traders to maintain no-deforestation sourcing.
Environment
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 months ago

Indonesia sues six companies over environmental harm in flood zones

Government sues six companies for environmental damage after deadly Sumatra floods, seeking 4.8 trillion rupiah to fund restoration under the polluter-pays principle.
Environment
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Argentina, a pioneer in glacier protection, is moving forward with a reform that threatens water security

Argentina must defend the Glacier Law to protect nearly 17,000 glaciers and secure strategic freshwater reserves against legal rollbacks.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Indonesia takes action against mining firms after floods devastate population of world's rarest ape

Indonesia revoked 28 company permits and sued six firms for environmental damage after floods and landslides devastated Batang Toru, killing 1,100 people and Tapanuli orangutans.
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