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Climate Communication: Creatives gathered in Cape Town to address the crisis 

Climate Communication: Creatives gathered in Cape Town to address the crisis 

Climate Story Lab ZA participants, mentors, and guest speakers gathered in Cape Town from 22 to 26 January to develop and amplify 9 creative...
seven decades of environmental racism in Salvador

seven decades of environmental racism in Salvador

Since the 1950s, an area with one of the largest Black populations in the state capital of Bahia has suffered damages to the health...

Bolivian communities opposed to highway cry foul over neglect

Indigenous leaders from...
Fishing communities create marine refuges to protect Chile’s biodiversity

Fishing communities create marine refuges to protect Chile’s biodiversity

In Chile’s Valparaíso region, artisanal fishers have created grassroots marine reserves to protect marine biodiversity.The areas are small, some of them just 15 hectares...
Treacherous pits and lakes left in the wake of Cameroon’s abandoned mining sites

Treacherous pits and lakes left in the wake of Cameroon’s abandoned...

Inactive mining sites in Cameroon are continuously abandoned without restoration by foreign companies, leaving behind huge pits in the ground that later form into...

Coal casts a shadow over U.N. climate talks in Poland

Activists have questioned...
Brazil’s Indigenous groups demand a voice in new soybean railway project

Brazil’s Indigenous groups demand a voice in new soybean railway project

The Ferrogrão railway project was conceived with a view to reducing transportation costs between the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Pará, where soybeans...

Brazilian regulators deny French oil giant Total license to drill near...

Brazil’s environmental regulatory...
Fishy business of squid vessels needs stronger regulation, study says

Fishy business of squid vessels needs stronger regulation, study says

Experts are drawing attention to the unregulated nature of squid fishing, which they say could lead to the overexploitation of species, allow illegal fishing...