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Ecuador moves to expand drilling in the Amazon
A novel idea to leave the country’s vast oil reserves in the ground fizzled for lack of international support. Now, struggling under painful debt, the government wants to expand drilling in the rainforest.
Indigenous Australians in Murujuga fight to preserve heritage sites
In Western Australia, new projects would supercharge gas drilling and processing. Traditional owners of the land say their heritage sites are threatened.
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Animals Are Running Out of Places to Live
Wildlife is disappearing around the world, in the oceans and on land. The main cause on land is perhaps the most straightforward: Humans are taking over too much of the planet, erasing what was there before. Climate change and other pressures make survival harder.
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Levi Sucre Romero: My community doesn't exist just to absolve you of your climate sins
Carbon markets have left Indigenous communities that manage tropical forests vulnerable to exploitation.
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Fighting climate change, Indigenous people protect Canadian forests
Canada is looking to its Indigenous communities to help manage its boreal forests, the world’s largest intact forest ecosystem and one if its biggest stores of carbon.
What Lula’s victory in Brazil means for climate
The president-elect once helped slash deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest. He says he wants to do it again.
Opinion
Op-ed: Brazil’s Presidential election will determine the planet’s future
And your chances of surviving on it, too.
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