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An extraordinary plot to open up an uncontacted tribe’s territory for exploitation, and suppress evidence of the tribe’s existence, has been revealed in Brazil. […]
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Up to 80,000 people, including at least 28,000 children, are estimated to have been affected across the country which has a population of about […]
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Michael Kaloki Climate change has brought about several extremes including drought, which affects our ability to grow crops. If we use insects for food, […]
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From a Brazilian entrepreneur using hip-hop to turn Favela youth away from crime, a Dutch nurse revolutionizing home healthcare and a park ranger turned […]
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Brett Wilkins This report underscores the reality of how the climate crisis is already affecting people’s lives and the economy As new statistics published Monday […]
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Nextblue Urban growth, temperature rise and melting glaciers threaten river deltas around the world. South-east Asia – from India to China – in particular […]
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Kamaljit RayR.K. GiriS.S. RayA.P. Dimri dM. Rajeevan Floods are becoming the most frequently occurring extreme events leading to high deaths in India. The states […]
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Ate Hoekstra, Yon Sineat Climate change, unsustainable and illegal fishing and the proliferation of hydropower dams on rivers that feed Tonle Sap threaten the livelihoods […]
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The three-way coalition set to assume power under chancellor-in-spe Olaf Scholz further prioritizes the environmental and digital sectors while maintaining traditional German economic strengths […]
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Lily Hess Addressing emissions other than those from CO2 could significantly stymie temperature rise When it comes to climate change, carbon dioxide is by […]
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Teddy Winn In PNG there are many laws against corruption. There are also a host of integrity agencies, a new Independent Commission against Corruption, […]
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Torbjørn Gjefsen The lead author of a Rainforest Foundation Norway report showing how little funding goes to Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) for […]
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The areas under “conservancies” are the ancestral grazing lands of pastoralist peoples such as the Samburu and Maasai, who have been managing these lands […]
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Christopher Davy The Paris rulebook has been finalised, the focus has been put on cutting emissions this decade, but developing countries are left dissatisfied […]
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and Ajaya Dixit Recurring floods in major cities point to need for moving away from land-centric urbanism Chennai is flooded. The north-east monsoon that […]
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To curb overfishing, biodiversity degradation and loss, and CO2 emissions, and to safeguard food and livelihoods, WTO members must prohibit fisheries subsidies that cause harm Sustainably […]
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Julia Conley If all the announced net-zero commitments are implemented, the global temperature would rise 1.8°C by 2100, policy experts said, adding, “but this […]
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Glasgow COP with over 40,000 registered delegates is the biggest COP till date, but gender based data shows that in COP 26, there was […]
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Fiona Broom A participation revolution is needed to stop the “outrageous” exclusion of civil society and the global South from major international talks, development […]
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Women and girls make up over half of the world’s IDPs, 5 million IDPs are living with disabilities, an estimated 2.6 million are elderly, […]
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vlogbrothers We should act as if this is an emergency, because it is. But part of that is understanding the tools and strategies countries […]
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Sarah Purnell, University of Brighton and James Edward Ebdon, University of Brighton The UK has around 1,500 individual river systems, totalling over 200,000 km […]
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Indonesia has a vast tract of suboptimal land that is rarely used as land for agriculture because it is considered to have low productivity […]
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Situation demands to go beyond the business-as-usual actions, but the global leaders and corporates are still moving with myopic economic and political system. “The […]
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