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DRC mines might be poisoning pregnant women
A Mongabay investigation found that industrial and artisanal mining of cobalt and copper in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
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Cobalt mining for green energy risks women’s reproductive health in DRC
Our investigation begins at the Trinité Medical Center, less than 20 kilometers, or 12 miles, from the city of Kolwezi, in ...
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Borneo’s ‘omen birds’ find a staunch guardian in Indigenous Dayak Iban elders
Deep in the rainforests of Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, the piercing calls of birds reverberate to the rhythm of the ...
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The calm before the storm: The first half of the 20th century in the Pan Amazon
The period between the end of the rubber boom and the onset of the colonisation frenzy that began in the 1960s was a time of ...
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As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps
Rob Wilson stood on his home’s back deck in Flagstaff, in the U.S. state of Arizona, as the wildfire approached. All was ...
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Parties gutting EUDR received donations from companies tied to illegal deforestation: Report
Parties members of the European People’s Party (EPP), a large center-right political party, received political donations from ...
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Bobcats are back, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease
A bobcat, with its characteristic reddish fur and black markings, trots across a snow-covered field in central Oregon, in the ...
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I’m boycotting COP29 because local Indigenous action matters more (commentary)
The first United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that I worked on was in 2009. I didn’t actually go ...
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African Development Bank chief calls for ‘green-rich’ continent to also be ‘cash-rich’
A top African policymaker at COP29, the ongoing global climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan has called for a better evaluation ...
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Shipping emissions reduction sheds light on marine cloud geoengineering
For many years, the North Atlantic Ocean warmed more slowly than other parts of the world. In 2023, that changed — ...
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Mapping ‘gloop and mud’ sheds light on seabed carbon storage
Among marine ecosystems, the capacity of mangroves, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to store carbon is well documented, but ...
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Using regenerative agriculture to heal the land and help communities: Q&A with Kaleka founder Silvia Irawan
In Seruyan, a regency in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province, independent smallholders are trialing regenerative ...