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It provides Brazil’s world-beating farmers with water, and keeps carbon locked up for the rest of us
The obvious economics of preserving the Amazon
It provides Brazil’s world-beating farmers with water, and keeps carbon locked up for the rest of us
econ.st
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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A core criticism Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his allies repeat about big pharmaceutical companies and the medical establishment is that they are motivated by profits. But the $1.5 trillion global wellness market is big business, too, and it’s benefiting them.
Examining Who Benefits From Kennedy's Anti-Science MAHA Push
Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law.
buff.ly
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Columbia Journalism Investigations/Documented found a pattern in this striking investigation by Jazzmin Jiwa and Carla Mandiola that found tens of thousands of migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last year came from places repeatedly hit by climate disasters
documentedny.com/2025/10/22/c...
'Nothing to Go Back to': How Climate Change Is Driving Migrants From Their Homes to NYC - Documented
New data shows how climate disasters correspond with migration to the United States.
documentedny.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The loss of the eastern forest of Madagascar once seemed impossible. Perhaps one day, thanks to this seed bank, it will be unthinkable again
How to save Madagascar’s dwindling forests
The island’s unique plants are being preserved in the world’s biggest seed bank
econ.st
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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“One child is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors.”

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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'“The Dynasty” documentary chronicles how Orbán’s family and friends have grown wildly wealthy as his political star has risen.

In its first month, the hour-long documentary has earned more than 3.5 million views on YouTube. (Hungary has a total population of around 9.6 million.)'
A Hungarian investigative news site finds YouTube success with an “old-fashioned” documentary
"In a bizarre way, the government propaganda also helped create some buzz around the film."
www.niemanlab.org
April 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Las comunidades indígenas han protegido el agua durante generaciones, demostrando que su gestión no es solo una cuestión técnica, sino también democrática

Por Adhik Arrilucea
Las lecciones de los indígenas sobre cómo cuidar el agua frente a los que especulan con el bien común
Mientras las grandes corporaciones la privatizan, estos pueblos la gestionan como un bien común.
www.publico.es
April 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Viol, inceste, emprise, omerta... Anouk Grinberg à cœur ouvert dans son livre « Respect ».
Dans son livre « Respect », Anouk Grinberg révèle ce qu’elle n’avait pu dire
L'actrice révèle tout de ses souffrances dans un témoignage poignant
www.20minutes.fr
April 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Fake reviews are everywhere, from Amazon to Google, and they’re affecting industries across the board. Platforms profit while consumers get misled. @caulfieldtim.bsky.social asks: Will regulators ever catch up? thewalrus.ca/fake-reviews-hav...
February 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Roberta Flack’s performances softly burned with the fire of life itself
Roberta Flack’s performances softly burned with the fire of life itself
The soul singer was ambitiously diverse in her musicianship, and enthralled at every turn – whether doing desolate folk cover versions or lighter, sophisticated pop
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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“The federal government’s main personnel agency, which had sent Saturday’s government-wide email, had quietly instructed agencies midday Monday that a response was voluntary. Those instructions effectively rescinded Musk’s threats.”
Elon Musk’s Empty Ultimatum
The billionaire Trump enforcer told federal workers they needed to justify themselves—or else. Then the administration changed its mind.
www.theatlantic.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Etats-Unis : un juge fédéral rejette la demande en référé de l’agence Associated Press de pouvoir accéder au bureau Ovale
Etats-Unis : un juge fédéral rejette la demande en référé de l’agence Associated Press de pouvoir accéder au bureau Ovale
Le juge McFadden, qui ne s’est pas prononcé sur le fond, a fixé une nouvelle audience au 20 mars. Il a averti la Maison Blanche, qui reproche à AP de ne pas utiliser le terme « golfe de l’Amérique », que la jurisprudence n’était pas de son côté.
www.lemonde.fr
February 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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What does it mean to be “civilized”? asks Dina Nayeri. It is, she writes, “to live with a moral standard that takes into account our fellow man, and to ask: What do we owe one another, and what do we owe strangers?”
Opinion | America Loses Its Soul When It Rejects People Fleeing Danger
A civilized society protects the world’s most vulnerable.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Rather than reject climate science like many on the right, some have followed the path laid out by environmentalist and white nationalist John Tanton, using concerns about population growth and scarce resources to rationalize their hateful agendas.

(Published Oct. 2024)
Far-Right Extremists Embrace Environmentalism to Justify Violent Anti-Immigrant Beliefs
Climate change and anti-immigrant hate are colliding, foretelling a volatile future.
propub.li
February 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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A construção de apartamentos turísticos é incessante. A aldeia impreparada para a invasão no Verão, já depende da água dos auto-tanques. Mas por todo o lado surgem piscinas.
Porto Covo: um mar de betão está a submergir a aldeia piscatória
A construção de apartamentos turísticos é incessante. A aldeia impreparada para a invasão no Verão, já depende da água dos auto-tanques. Mas por todo o lado surgem piscinas
www.publico.pt
February 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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‘Heartbreaking’: Iceland’s pioneering female fishing guides fear for wild salmon
‘Heartbreaking’: Iceland’s pioneering female fishing guides fear for wild salmon
First women working as fishing guides on Laxá River, featured in new film, call for action after farmed fish escape For seven generations, Andrea Ósk Hermóðsdóttir’s family have been fishing on the Laxá River in Aðaldalur. Iceland has a reputation as a…
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Cooperativa junta cerca de 90 mulheres, de 21 nacionalidades. Têm participado em mercados e colaborado com parceiros como empresas que lhes fazem encomendas. Querem crescer.
Bandim, uma rede de mulheres imigrantes: “Estamos a criar algo a que realmente pertencemos”
Cooperativa junta cerca de 90 mulheres, de 21 nacionalidades. Têm participado em mercados e colaborado com parceiros como empresas que lhes fazem encomendas. Querem crescer
www.publico.pt
February 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Portugal permite, por lei, a esterilização de adultos e menores com deficiência. Para muitas famílias é a resposta a um conjunto de medos; activistas falam em “atropelo dos Direitos Humanos”.
Esterilização de mulheres com deficiência: “Continuamos esquecidas”
Portugal permite, por lei, a esterilização de adultos e menores com deficiência. Para muitas famílias é a resposta a um conjunto de medos; activistas falam em “atropelo dos Direitos Humanos”.
www.publico.pt
February 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Police missed red flags before man killed a mother and daughter on hunt for ex-wife, report finds
After Ariel Bombara claimed WA police ignored repeated warnings her father was dangerous and had guns, eight officers now face disciplinary action www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Police missed red flags before WA man killed a mother and daughter on hunt for ex-wife, report finds
After Ariel Bombara claimed WA police ignored repeated warnings her father was dangerous and had guns, eight officers now face disciplinary action
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
EUA, 2024.
A New York doctor was criminally indicted for allegedly prescribing abortion pills to a girl in Louisiana, setting up one of the first major legal challenges to “shield laws” enacted by some Democratic-led states to protect doctors providing abortion access since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.
N.Y. doctor charged with prescribing abortion pills to Louisiana girl
A New York doctor was criminally indicted Friday for allegedly prescribing a Louisiana girl pills that caused her to have an abortion.
wapo.st
February 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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In Wisconsin, people who fear they’ll be deported are mailing their most precious things back to Nicaragua — just in case.

A must-read by @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social + photographer Benjamin Rasmussen.
How One Immigrant Community Is Coping With the Threat of Deportation
The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations. “We don’t have much, but wh...
www.propublica.org
January 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The Trump administration has stripped away the legal-immigration status of 600,000 Venezuelans who had permission to live and work in the United States, Gisela Salim-Peyer writes:
The ‘Right Way’ to Immigrate Just Went Wrong
The Trump administration has stripped the status of 600,000 Venezuelans who obeyed the law.
www.theatlantic.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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While my mother was in the hospital, physicians decided her reproductive life should end. While she was in labor, she was told that she had to consent to tubal ligation for the doctor to deliver her baby. This was part of a national program, sanctioned by state governments, that sterilized women.
What my Black mother’s involuntary sterilization in 1965 reveals about America today
Too often, the plantation mentality endures.
www.motherjones.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM