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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
LONDON — The British government is divided over whether to stump up the cash for a flagship environmental pledge meant to protect tropical forests, jeopardizing a potential announcement by Prime …
UK government split over cost of COP30 forest pledge Read More
By 2050, the annual nickel supply will have to increase by 208%, and annual copper supply by 156% relative to 2020 production levels, if global net-zero emissions goals are to be …
EU faces green dilemma in Indonesian nickel Read More
For years, the Jequitinhonha River Valley, in southeastern Brazil, carried the stigma of being a very poor area, marked by the hunger and illiteracy. But it turns out that treasure …
Lithium fever brings prosperity and headaches to one of the poorest corners of Brazil Read More
“We are saying with folded hands that the only thing that we want is our lands to be saved. And if not land, then at least our houses.” The Canary spoke …
UK government climate ‘aid’ set to displace indigenous villagers in India Read More
In mid-January, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused the country’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, of facilitating genocide against the Indigenous Yanomami people, who live deep in the Amazon rainforest along the border …
How gold mining in Brazil is connected to hundreds of deaths Read More
Nations will have to rethink economic growth as a measure of success if they want to make good on pledges to halt the destruction of the natural world, according to …
‘Nature is our home’: New UK report urges big economic rethink Read More
From the publisher: A hard-headed book that confronts and outlines possible solutions to a seemingly intractable problem: that helping the poor often hurts the environment, and vice versa. Can we …
Unsustainable Inequalities Read More
In one of the India’s privately-owned forest reserves, an effort to use the small patch of forest land to connect forest land to conservation with livelihood.
Eco India: An eco-tourism model that focuses on forest conservation and building the local economy Read More
The EU parliament came under fire recently for approving a Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that critics say will “massacre nature”. But after the EU voted to sign nature’s “death sentence”, rainforest communities …
As the EU votes to ‘massacre nature’, rainforest communities find a trailblazing way to protect it Read More