- Oct- 2021 -8 OctoberMintPressNews
Water as Weapon of War: Activists Say Israel is Drying Out the West Bank to Drive Out Palestinians
by Jessica Buxbaum – MintPressNews – Creative Commons(MintPressNews) – MASAFER YATTA, OCCUPIED WEST BANK — Last weekend, around 600 Israeli, Palestinian and international activists marched across Masafer Yatta in the Occupied…
Read More » - 2 OctoberMongaBay
Malawi court sentences Chinese wildlife trafficking kingpin to 14 years in jail
by Charles Mpaka – MongaBay – Creative CommonsA court in Malawi has sentenced a Chinese national to 14 years in jail for masterminding an illegal wildlife trafficking cartel that operated across…
Read More » - Sep- 2021 -21 SeptemberMongaBay
Fires in the Amazon have already impacted 90% of plant and animal species
by Suzana Camargo – MongaBay – Creative CommonsNew study addresses the effects of fires on biodiversity loss in the world’s largest forest during the last two decades.Researchers measured the impacts on…
Read More » - Aug- 2021 -11 AugustMongaBay
Nigeria seizes scales from 15,000 dead pangolins
by Mongabay.com – MongaBay – Creative CommonsAuthorities at the Nigeria Customs Service have announced the seizure of 7.1 tons of pangolin scales that smugglers were attempting to ship out of the…
Read More » - 7 AugustMintPressNews
SpyCops: How the UK Police Infiltrated 1,000 Activist Groups
by Lowkey – MintPressNews – Creative Commons(MintPressNews) – The new MintPress podcast, “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip-hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public…
Read More » - 6 AugustMongaBay
More than 250 major fires detected in the Amazon this year, despite Brazil’s ban
Liz Kimbrough – MongaBay – Creative CommonsThere have been 267 major fires detected in the Amazon this year, burning more than 105,000 hectares (260,000 acres) — an area roughly the size…
Read More » - 3 AugustMongaBay
333 people rescued from slavery in Brazil mines since 2008, exclusive report shows
Maurício Angelo – MongaBay – Creative CommonsA breakthrough report has mapped out all the raids carried out to rescue people working in slave-labor conditions in mines across Brazil since 2008.A…
Read More » - Jul- 2021 -26 JulyMongaBay
‘Stampede’ of legislation threatens accelerated destruction of the Amazon
by Débora Pinto – Translated by Maya Johnson – MongaBay – Creative CommonsA series of bills being deliberated in Brazil threatens to legalize illegally occupied land, change demarcation rules for Indigenous…
Read More » - 22 JulyMongaBay
Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests
by Jim Tan – MongaBay – Creative CommonsGabon recently received the first $17 million of a pledged $150 million from Norway for results-based emission reduction payments as part of the…
Read More » - 17 JulyMongaBay
Israel-U.A.E. pipeline deal ‘invitation to disaster’ for globally important corals
by Elizabeth Fitt – MongaBay – Creative CommonsIsrael and the U.A.E are moving to extend oil operations using Israel’s “land bridge,” an alternative to the Suez Canal, following the signing…
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