Bioeconomically speaking
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 …
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Waves of old ways
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 …
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A whiff of betrayal
Jia-Ren Tan charts how the Malaysian state has plundered the fruits of the labours of the country’s family farms. In April 2025, state enforcement officers arrived in Raub—a highland town …
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How Brazil’s Oil Giant Is Using Gen-Z Science and Climate Influencers to Green Up Its Image
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 …
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Stock market exodus to Wall Street hits 20-year high
The consistently higher returns of the U.S. stock market compared with its European and Asian counterparts year after year have led investors across much of the world to focus their …
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Reform UK’s Crypto Donations Put Under Spotlight as Experts Warn It’s ‘Impossible to Trace’ Foreign Cash
The Government is being urged to urgently ‘close the loopholes’ which could allow hostile states and malicious actors to donate to political parties via untraceable cryptocurrencies. Reform UK became the first …
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Trump’s trade battle with China puts US soybean farmers in peril
MAGNOLIA, Ky. (AP) — The leafy soybean plants reach Caleb Ragland’s thighs and are ripe for harvest, but the Kentucky farmer is deeply worried. He doesn’t know where he and …
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Syria’s quest to build its own Silicon Valley
At the end of November, Hamza Hourani’s phone rang. It was a cloudy morning in Damascus, and some Syrians were quietly stocking their cupboards as rebel fighters marched south toward …
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Is the green hydrogen dream over?
In 2022, the Australian mining and energy company Fortescue signed a deal with E.On, a German energy network and infrastructure operator, to supply up to five million tons of low-emission green …
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Bank of England to ease pressure on Reeves by slowing bond sales
The Bank of England left its key interest rate unchanged on Thursday but offered Chancellor Rachel Reeves a modicum of relief by slowing the pace of its bond sales. The …
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