Dietary guidelines can do a better job clarifying the differences between beneficial and harmful forms of processing.
A satellite captured large and small deforestation patches in Amazonas State in 2015. The forest loss has escalated since then.
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Until Bolsonaro’s election win, sex workers had been gaining rights. His ultra-far-right, homophobic, racist and mysoginistic views have made the reality much worse.
Wind power has been bolstered by government subsidies.
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Criminal charges against former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot could spark political consequences – not only for Trump, but for US democracy.
With four tiny legs and an extraordinarily long body, a fossil of the snake-like lizard Tetrapodophis amplectus has created controversy.
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In 2015, a published article described the fossil of a four-legged snake. New research has revealed that it is in fact a lizard, and the fossil is the centre of a scientific ethics debate.
Fires burn off forest cover and natural grasses to create cattle pasture in the Maya forest in Guatemala.
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More than 100 world leaders have pledged to end the destruction of forests by 2030 as a way to slow climate change. That will require changing how the world produces four widely used commodities.
Migrants often have to brave the sea with just food, water, and life vests.
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Deforestation in Brazil was falling before 2014. Under Bolsonaro, it’s back to record highs.
Indigenous Peoples protest the Brazilian government’s efforts to exterminate their rights and legalize destruction of the Amazon forest at the ‘Luta Pela Vida’ (struggle for life) protest, in August 2021, in Brasilia, Brazil.
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The climate emergency can’t be addressed with simplistic solutions. A network of Indigenous communities in Brazil invites us to reorient colonial approaches and embrace deeper change.
Indigenous activists have long been protesting the Belo Monte complex.
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More than 600,000 Brazilians have died of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. A new report says the policies of President Jair Bolsonaro are responsible for around half.
Food insecurity is a daily reality for millions of South Africans. Community organisations can help.
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These organisations are ideally placed to contribute their fine-grained local knowledge. They intimately understand the specific needs of the most vulnerable in their communities.
Mangrove reforestation project in Belo-sur-Mer, southwestern Madagascar.
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Big Food companies producing ulta-processed foods are using a range of key market and political practices to increase their reach, particularly in developing countries.
Inequality is highly persistent in South Africa.
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