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A judge in the United Kingdom has ruled that global mining giant BHP Group is liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, in a lawsuit the claimants’ lawyers previously valued …
UK judge finds BHP Group liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster Read More
One afternoon, in mid-May, Nancy was eating with five of her coworkers. All of them are Indigenous Q’eqchi’ Maya women from the municipality of Cobán — located in Alta Verapaz, …
Indigenous Guatemalans denounce exploitation on Mexican farms: ‘Bananas are worth more than us’ Read More
CANDIOTA, Brazil, Nov 8 (Reuters) – One of Brazil’s last coal plants roared back to life in July after a powerful business group invested millions to keep its turbines turning …
Why coal still clings on in renewable energy powerhouse Brazil Read More
Microsoft and Google say their data centers in Chile would create thousands of jobs. Permit filings show the largest data centers have the potential to create only hundreds of full-time …
Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise Read More
Sofia Casas warns of another shade of greenwash. With COP-30 approaching this November in Belém – in the heart of the Amazon – the term “bioeconomy” has become a powerful …
Bioeconomically speaking Read More
David Barkin looks at the swell of ancestral community measures across the Global South to address climate change issues. On a cool evening in Oaxaca, Mexico, the town’s plaza fills …
Waves of old ways Read More
In a recent Instagram reel, a Brazilian influencer known as “Mylly Biologando” grins at the camera after inspecting a test tube filled with something bubbling and green. It’s a microalgae that …
How Brazil’s Oil Giant Is Using Gen-Z Science and Climate Influencers to Green Up Its Image Read More
Argentina’s markets have tumbled, with the peso currency at a historic low, after a heavy defeat for President Javier Milei’s party at the hands of the Peronist opposition at local elections stoked …
Argentine markets plunge after Milei’s party loses in Buenos Aires vote Read More
TikTok is investing in a $10 billion data center in Brazil’s northeast. Indigenous people who claim the allocated land say they were not consulted on the project. Brazil aims to …
Indigenous group in Brazil takes TikTok to court over planned data center Read More
The rats scurried into the shed. Flinching at the sound of a horde of tiny claws scratching at the ground, Migdalia Mass Llorens kept vigil over her sleeping family huddled …
Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow Read More