The UK government can never accept that nature or Mother Earth has rights, a British government official from the environment department has told the UN.…
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Optimism dries up in Amazon as Lula drifts from climate priorities
What a difference a year makes in the Brazilian Amazon. At the start of 2023, I wrote about the green shoots of the rainy season…
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Incidents of harassment, surveillance, threats and intimidation are creating a climate of fear at UN events including the recent Cop28 climate conference in Dubai, experts…
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Among my people, the Marubo, knowledge is transmitted through oral history, passed down by elders throughout the centuries. For many generations these stories described the…
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More than 800m trees have been cut down in the Amazon rainforest in just six years to feed the world’s appetite for Brazilian beef, according…
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Three assassins walked into a bar deep in the Brazilian Amazon one night last October. Beers flowed, tongues loosened and the men were overheard bragging…
View More Bruno Pereira and Dom Phllips were killed in the Amazon. Their Indigenous allies risk death to carry on the workGreat pretender: the bird with an Elvis-like quiff that can’t stop mimicking
In the dense forests of south India’s Western Ghats, you may be lucky enough to spot a greater racket-tailed drongo crooning to birds of other…
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A number of Indigenous communities in the Amazon say that “carbon pirates” have become a threat to their way of life as western companies seek…
View More The ‘carbon pirates’ preying on Amazon’s Indigenous communitiesCop15 in Montreal: did the summit deliver for the natural world?
Conservation of species The term “nature positive”, which scientists had said would be the biodiversity equivalent of “net zero”, did not make the final document.…
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The surveillance plane eased off the runway and banked west towards the frontline of one of Brazil’s most dramatic environmental and humanitarian crises. Its objective:…
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