Researcher Brenda Brito says bills passed by Brazil’s lower house last week will increase deforestation. One would bar satellite imagery alone from triggering land-use bans (embargos), forcing agents to physically inspect sites — an impossible task for thousands of deforestation areas.
Iran and Israel say their mutual strikes have been halted, Todd Blanche is nominated as U.S. attorney general, Nithya Raman advances to the Los Angeles mayoral runoff, and the Ebola outbreak in the DRC surpasses 100 deaths
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“And I think in this way, I have a lot of beef with the Democrats who substitute this sort of incipient idea of centrism for pluralism, which should really be their strength.”