Verra suspends carbon credit projects following police raid in Brazil
Verra, the largest registry of the voluntary carbon market, suspended projects targeted by the Federal Police in the Brazilian Amazon following an investigation by...
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Ancient Mariners: The Plight of Sea Turtles
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With an eye on EU’s new rules, scientists test ways to...
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BlueInvest Africa 2024 Invitation to investors to support the blue economy...
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Can iron fertilization of the oceans help solve the climate crisis?...
In response to climate change, several carbon dioxide removal approaches involving the marine environment are being studied, with ocean iron fertilization being among those...
2 years after Bruno & Dom’s murders, Amazon region still rife...
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Black days for black kites in Bangladesh’s growing capital city
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Launching the Nedbank Indalo Fund of R10 million to empower and...
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Javan rhino poacher gets 12 years in record sentence for wildlife...
A court in Indonesia has sentenced the head of a rhino poaching gang, Sunendi, to 12 years in jail for killing six rhinos, as...
Activists decry latest arrests of East African oil pipeline opponents
Caroline Chebet
Article by: Caroline Chebet
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Brazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay
The Brazilian Federal Police arrested people and seized assets linked to some of the country’s largest carbon credit projects.According to the investigators, the group...



















