Category:The Amazon
What's up in the forest
Four little bills
Topic:Climate
Topic:India
Press Freedom. Diplomacy. Hunger. Satire. Heatwave.
South Asia Brief: This week India seals a $40 billion pipeline amid Oslo press freedom row, a cockroach-named parody party shakes India, Pakistan enters the world’s top ten hunger hotspots, and new science reveals hotter South Asian heatwaves.
Topic:Climate
"Shipping channels will cause deforestation."
Auricelia Arapiuns says “a series of destructive projects” — shipping channels, railways, ports, mining — threaten traditional peoples in the Amazon. The government narrative of shipping channels reducing carbon emissions is incorrect, as they’ll cause deforestation, she says. Part 2 of interview.
Dateline:ALTAMIRA, Brazil
Indigenous Women Occupy Agency to Stop Canadian Belo Sun Mine in the Amazon
WATCH: Indigenous peoples say the mine, layered on top of the impacts of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, puts their territories and food security at risk.
Category:Politics
Trump’s "Climate Bullying" Undermined COP30
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.
Dateline:BELÉM, Brazil
An Offense to Forest Spirits
Shaman Nato Tupinambá, of the of the Amazon's Indigenous Tupinambá people, 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.
Topic:Climate
Climate Deals Burn in COP Climate Conference’s Final Hours
Topic:Climate
During the storm
Awaiting the wrath of monster Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica prays
Topic:Climate
FEMA protest letter
Trump cuts could erase decades of gains since Katrina
Category:Environment
Anatomy of a storm
A lot went wrong after Katrina. Twenty years later, where do we stand?
Topic:Climate
Dozens killed as extreme weather hits Indian-administered Kashmir
Category: Florida
Before the storm: How do you forecast a hurricane?
Topic:Climate
Before the storm
Under Trump, hurricane forecasting faces its own cone of concern
Category:India
India’s "trash mountains": a slow-motion environmental catastrophe
Topic:Climate
Texas Flash Floods: How did this happen?
Topic:Wildfires