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Category:The Amazon
A quick note from a reporting trip to the Tocantins River, Brazilian Amazon. I visited Tauiry Village, where Brazil's govt. plans to install a construction site to blow up the rocky riverbed for 3 years. The traditional riverfolk who live there are fighting it.
Category:Brazil
In Belém, I talked with teacher Israel Esteban, 29, who was protesting a new bill that would reduce Bolsonaro’s prison term. We chatted about democracy, militarism, and the US military buildup near Venezuela.
Category:Climate
Indigenous peoples calling for an immediate halt to the Canadian Belo Sun mining project in the Amazon have occupied a nearby government building since December 8. They say the mine, layered on top of the impacts of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, puts their territories and food security at risk.
Category:Climate
Trump's trade war and US “climate bullying” have frayed international cooperation and weakened the COP30 final accords, climate expert Claudio Angelo told me in this interview in Belém just after COP30 ended. We discuss the COP consensus rule, hopeful developments and his take on Prince William.
Category:Climate
Shaman Nato Tupinambá, of the of the Amazon's Indigenous Tupinambá people, in this video evaluates COP30. For him, the real COP was in the Peoples' Summit, which among other things, called on leaders to implement zero deforestation strategies and end criminal rainforest fires.
Category:Climate